(14 Apr 2024)
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Kiryat Shmona, Israel - 14 April 2024
1. Closed off road, sign on side of road reading Kiryat Shmona
2. Various of closed shops
3. Various of empty square
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Luda Tarnopolsky, Kiryat Shmona resident
"Through the window you see them falling (the rockets) first fire and then a boom."
5. Empty street
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Luda Tarnopolsky, Kiryat Shmona resident:
"It's just a pity that there are no people in the city, you wander around and you don't even hear the voice of someone, that is scary but besides that it's totally ok."
7. Luda Tarnopolsky, Kiryat Shmona resident entering her house
8. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Prosper Azran, Kiryat Shmona resident
"Hezbollah controls the flames, it determines the level of intensity for us, from what will happen here. We constantly admit that we are defending ourselves only, we are not attacking yet, that's what we are saying, that we are only defending ourselves. The same goes with Iran, they announced two days so we are only defending ourselves and the Jews are always defending themselves."
9. Empty shopping area ++MUTE++
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Yossi Amado, Kibbut Shamir resident:
"Well we had quite a scary night last night. I guess about eleven o'clock we heard there were drones on the way to Israel. We were at home, we were worried about my daughters who live in Tel Aviv because all of Israel was under attack and luckily we survived that night."
11. Various of empty playground
12. Wide of Kiryat Shmona



STORYLINE:
Residents of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel faced a double threat last night with the unprecedented attack by Iran involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, in addition to Hezbollah launches.

The Iran-backed group Hezbollah has been striking Israel since Oct. 7.

The Iranian attack on Saturday, less than two weeks after a suspected Israeli strike in Syria that killed two Iranian generals in an Iranian consular building, marked the first time Iran has launched a direct military assault on Israel, despite decades of enmity dating back to the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Israel and Iran have been on a collision course throughout Israel’s six-month war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

The war erupted after Hamas, who are backed by Iran, carried out a devastating cross-border attack on Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapped 250 others.

AP video shot by Erez Ben Simon

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