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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont and Quique Kierszenbaum in Nahariya

‘All day you hear bombs’: on Israel’s northern border as war with Hezbollah looms

Dr Tsvi Sheleg talks to a patient in the trauma unit with curtains and an Israeli flag
Dr Tsvi Sheleg talks to a patient in the underground trauma unit at Galilee medical centre in Nahariya, near Israel’s border with Lebanon. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

Beneath the 800-bed Galilee medical centre in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, treatment is being conducted in an underground complex beneath the hospital.

About 7km from the border with Lebanon, a frontier visible from the hospital’s car park and already under threat from Hezbollah’s missiles and explosive drones, the doctors are aware that in the event of an escalating war their facility will be on the frontline.

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