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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Kibbutz Snir

‘I can’t drink my coffee and see the Hezbollah flag’: calls for a wider war on Israel’s border

Raz Malka
Raz Malka in Kiryat Shmona, where his childhood kindergarten was hit by a rocket. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

Omer Shita does not want another war, but thinks Israel may need one if his family are ever going to return to their home on the country’s northern border.

He has put his life on hold – living miles from his wife and children, working part-time from a laptop – so he can patrol the empty streets of their kibbutz, set in green hills with sweeping views of the first villages inside Lebanon.

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