On the main street of Metula on Thursday morning there was one thing everybody agreed on: the night had been “difficult”. The sirens had fallen silent only a few hours earlier when military authorities were sure there would be no further waves of attacks with rockets and drones on targets across northern Israel launched by Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militant Islamist movement, and its sponsor, Iran. Yet any calm was fragile and partial. Warplanes flew low over the small town, the northernmost community in Israel, and the loud percussive bang of interceptions of missiles came frequently. In the background was the
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