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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Sabbagh and Quique Kierszenbaum in Kibbutz Cabri

‘Endless war’: inside an Israeli kibbutz near Lebanon’s volatile border

Close up of Gali Moria gazing upward
Gali Moria, who runs the Kibbutz Cabri’s business activities. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

It is a day after Israel killed more than 300 in a ceasefire-defying attack in Lebanon, and five miles from the border, at kibbutz Cabri in northern Israel, the quiet of the early Thursday evening has been disrupted.

Three times, as the Guardian tries to leave, air raid sirens sound, and twice Iron Dome interceptors are launched. The last of the rockets fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon is sufficiently close that the Moria family and their visitors head promptly to a reinforced safe room, shutting a heavy metal door behind them. The family dog is there too, knowing the drill.

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