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Six months after Yulia Bar-Dan and her family fled their home on a kibbutz in northern Israel fearing a possible Hezbollah assault following the horrendous Hamas attack of Oct. 7, she returned to gather what she could from a lifetime of memories she\u2019d left behind.<\/p>\n

One hour was all she had. “We were given a chance, under the cover of darkness, to return home for the first time,” she told Fox News Digital. “I cried the whole time.”<\/p>\n

When she arrived, Kibbutz Manara, once home to close to 300 people, looked like a war zone. “We heard explosions above us and hurried to our house\u00a0\u2013 the one closest to the Lebanese border. There was no electricity, and we couldn\u2019t open the windows,” she said.<\/p>\n

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With a flashlight in hand, she went room to room, gathering as much as she could in a large trash bag. The family of five is now living in a single room and there\u2019s not much space for extras. “My daughter wanted her dollhouse, but I couldn\u2019t bring it. The happiest moment was finding our cat alive. Seeing him brought real joy to the kids,” she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not long after she collected her belongings and left the kibbutz, a Hezbollah missile hit her house. The strike added her home to the staggering 75% of kibbutz structures in the north that have been damaged by Hezbollah\u2019s relentless bombardments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since\u00a0Hezbollah joined the war<\/a> as a “support front” for Hamas on Oct. 8, over 7,500 rockets have been fired from Lebanon into Israel, and more than 200 drones have crossed the border. The toll: 44 people have been killed, 271 wounded and\u00a062,000 evacuated<\/a> from dozens of communities in northern Israel. Those who have left have no idea when \u2013 or even if \u2013 they will ever return. The damage to agriculture and tourism has reached billions of dollars, and there is widespread fear that this conflict will escalate further.<\/p>\n

The decision to evacuate most northern communities immediately after Oct. 7 didn\u2019t come from the government, which was slow to respond. It came from the residents themselves. “It\u2019s sheer luck that Hezbollah\u2019s Radwan forces didn\u2019t join Hamas in the massacre; if they had, nothing would have stopped them,” says Yochai Wolfin, the community director of Kibbutz Manara. “We are right on the border and at high risk. We\u2019ve known for at least 10 years that\u00a0Hezbollah\u2019s Radwan forces<\/a> have a plan they\u2019ve been training to invade the Galilee, seize multiple communities and do here exactly what we saw happen in the south.”<\/p>\n

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Naor Shamia, who has lived with his wife and three children on Kibbutz Manara since 2011, doesn\u2019t sugarcoat the response of people living near the northern border following Oct. 7. “We ran away. We were terrified they would slaughter us, just like they did in the Gaza envelope,” he recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since Oct. 7, Shamia, who typically would spend his days teaching math and physics, has been focused on leading the kibbutz\u2019s rapid response unit \u2013 a band of community members with combat experience \u2013 which has been tasked with defending against terrorist infiltrations, rocket fire and even wildfires ignited by hot shrapnel or missile impacts. “Much of Kibbutz Manara is visible from Lebanon, which makes our situation even more challenging,” Shamia says. “You can walk through parts of the kibbutz and be fully\u00a0exposed to Hezbollah<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

In December, when members of the rapid response unit rushed to a blaze that had been sparked by an anti-tank missile, Hezbollah fired three more missiles, injuring two members of the unit. “Manara sits on a high ridge, making us an easy target for anti-tank missiles,” Shamia says. “We\u2019re exposed.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Established in 1943, the kibbutz economy has been primarily based on agriculture, including a famous vineyard, cherry and apple orchards, and poultry farming. Today, much of that has been destroyed by Hezbollah\u2019s rockets. The vineyard was burned and the orchards, located in frequently targeted areas, were abandoned.<\/p>\n

An aluminum business, which Yulia\u2019s husband, Nadav, ran, was also destroyed by a missile strike. Since then, he has been serving with the rapid response unit, while Bar-Dan and their three children live in a single room on a kibbutz in the north but away from the border.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s no official declaration of war here, but we\u2019re living as if there is a war, constantly bombarded by drones and missiles<\/a>,” she says. “The children go to school, but they spent two hours in a shelter today because of missile fire. People might ask, \u2018Why don\u2019t you move somewhere else?\u2019 But this is our home. I can\u2019t imagine living anywhere else.”<\/p>\n

She continued, “What would happen if she and others pulled up roots and abandoned the northernmost regions of Israel? Manara is on the border. If we\u2019re not there, who will be? We have to come back.”<\/p>\n

She says she hopes for the day when the government comes to understand what\u2019s at stake “and does what\u2019s necessary to change the situation in the north. While the world\u2019s attention is focused elsewhere,” adding, “the war between Israel and Hezbollah has left northern Israel in a state of devastation.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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