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The bus that transports the children of Kfar Saled in the morning left late this morning - it waited until the security officials gave an instruction that it was possible to leave.
However, when the bus left for the school it became clear that fewer students got on it compared to previous days.
This morning's heavy barrage of landslides in the Golan Heights and the alarm for fear of falls in Kfar Saled, caused some of the students' parents to prefer that their children stay at home.
"We have become an enclave in a war zone," said Panina Bornstein, the community director of Kfar Sold.
"The barrage this morning was unusual in its intensity and every such event intensifies the crisis we are in. It's like the system rattling all over again. Once again we have to say that we are in control of the situation, but if the government thinks we're stupid, they're wrong - we know it's not rain" .
"Israel has lost its deterrence."
Giora Zaltz, head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council/Shlomi Gabai
Giora Zaltz, head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council of which Kfar Sold is a member, said after the heavy barrages this morning that "the State of Israel has lost its deterrent power and is unable to regain it."
According to him, "the IDF's activity in Lebanon under the directive 'not to light too big a fire' is likened to someone who shouts 'hold me, hold me, otherwise...'
The Israeli government must change the rules of the game on the northern border to actually create an area free of Hezbollah north of the border and no less importantly, to create a real deterrent - including significant damage to the built-up areas close to the border, most of which are used as observation and firing positions by Hezbollah."
Living in the shadow of the guns is known to the founders of Kfar Sold The kibbutz was established in 1942 on the eastern edge of the Hula Valley, in the foothills of the Golan Heights. The isolated settlement was attacked during the War of Independence and until the Six-Day War stood on the border line with Syria and suffered more than one shooting from the other side of the border. Like most kibbutzim, Kfar Sold also went through processes of regeneration and privatization In recent years, the settlement began to experience a demographic boom, new residents were absorbed, a new neighborhood was established and another neighborhood was on the way. However - in October, the war came and destroyed the cards.
Kfar Saled is 5.5 kilometers from Israel's border with Lebanon and because of that extra half kilometer, its residents were not evacuated south by the government's decision to evacuate settlements along the conflict line. Despite this, many left for safer settlements, these are mainly families with children. Later some returned home, but to this day about a fifth of the residents of Kfar Sold live outside the settlement.
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"The reasons why they didn't evacuate us are dissolving before our eyes and the shooting this morning illustrates that," said Bornstein, but her frustration does not stem from that decision but from what followed it.
According to her, "We are cut off and transparent, the State of Israel does not see us at all. The feeling is that we have been abandoned. You did not evict us, fine, but there is also no thinking and action to support us, from protection, through solutions for students in the education system to the provision of proper health services."
"We are left to live in the shadow of the missiles, so at least they will give us basic rights that every citizen in the country deserves. Today we are not second-class citizens of the State of Israel, but far below that," said Bornstein painfully.
"We are in a war of survival and feel that we are fighting without any help. We take care of ourselves for cultural life and education. We don't want to be only in a situation of physical survival," she added.
"We were left to live in the shadow of the missiles."
Kfar Sold/Eli Ashkenazi
Almost every area of life is affected and functions poorly - students travel on roads exposed to gunfire to schools where they only study 3.5 hours a day, the after-school education system operates only thanks to the help of the civilian military service of Achiim LaNishek, the state does not support this activity. The early childhood education system operates with only half the number of children and beyond the social cost it is also a heavy financial burden on the community. A family doctor comes to the clinic, but any other medical treatment, of professional medicine, can be obtained tens of kilometers south of there
. Their health deteriorates during this period because of the pressure they are under, they simply give up on medical treatments they must receive, because of the hassle, the travel and the fear of getting hurt on the way," said Burshantein. "And I didn't even mention the financial costs that result from this.
For everything we have to travel great distances.
There are service personnel from different companies who do not agree to come to us.
To repair Tami 4, we have to travel all the way to Rosh Pina, for example." This is a trip of nearly forty kilometers in each direction.
"We will not be able to bear this situation for long.
We are carrying this campaign on our backs that has been going on for almost half a year and there is no thinking about how to support us.
Right now we don't see the end and don't know where it's going and the feeling that this is just our war.
The state should have already established a body that will deal with the problems of today and tomorrow.
When the security problem is finally resolved, the question will be how to restore the lost trust in the country and bring the residents back to the north.
Right now we are paying a heavy community price, which is paid by both the families that left and the families that stayed.
In the morning like we experienced today, for example, people ask themselves if they are acting correctly and responsibly towards their families.
I feel that we are losing the north and in my eyes this is a tragedy."
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