Gaza echoes on Israel-Lebanon border: ‘It’s dangerous here’
The farmer was harvesting apples on a north-facing slope along Israel’s border with Lebanon when he was killed by a guided anti-tank missile fired by fighters of the Shiite militia Hezbollah.
Local residents say Eyal Ozen should not have been in the orchard near Mattat Thursday afternoon. The tiny Israeli community is one of dozens perched on the Israel-Lebanon border that were evacuated to avoid a possible repeat by Hezbollah, in the north, of Hamas’ Oct. 7 ground incursion in the south, which left 1,200 people dead and 240 taken hostage.
Israeli forces targeted the “source of fire” on the Lebanon side with attack helicopters and tank and artillery rounds. For those who live here, cheek-by-jowl with Israel’s northern archfoe Hezbollah, the killing was just the latest episode in a series of escalating daily
