Dawn broke over northern Israel on Sunday to the sound of rocket alarms and explosions, shaking residents from their sleep across the entire area. Residents from the Golan Heights to Akko woke into a harsh reality that has become all too familiar to evacuated northern communities facing daily attacks.

“For ten months now, we have been enduring dozens and hundreds of barrages almost daily. So far, there has been almost no significant response,” Matan Davidian told  The Press Service of Israel. Davidian is a resident of Shlomi, an Israeli town about 100 meters away from the Lebanese border. Davidian is also the leader of the “Fighting for the North” campaign.

Although the town was evacuated in October, some families risked returning home due to the unbearable conditions of cramped hotel rooms. Because of the Sunday morning barrage, the town became even quieter, and a planned funeral event was canceled.

In less than a 15-minute drive from there, the town of Nahariya, which has not been evacuated, also came under fire this morning.

Moria Reder from Nahariya who is also a member of the “Fighting for the North”, addressed the flashback she is experiencing from the 2006 war with Lebanon, only now it’s scarier for her as she has two young children to take care of.

“We feel like we’re being played with, like in Russian roulette,” Reder draws a chilling comparison between Nahariya and Sderot, a city in the south of Israel that has been a target for rocket attacks for years. “Nahariya is becoming the new Sderot, and some people want peace at any cost—even at the cost of our lives. We must go out and fight Hezbollah.”

At the the beginning of a Security Cabinet meeting held at the Israeli military’s headquarters in Tel Aviv on Sunday afternoon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the day’s fighting was “not the end,” insisting that “this is another step towards changing the situation in the north.”

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