Away from home, Israeli evacuees wait as Hezbollah tensions spike
Yarden Gil opens a reinforced metal door to enter the northern Israeli kindergarten where she works, which doubles as an underground shelter against rockets fired by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
She is among tens of thousands displaced from the border area by the ever-present threat of Hezbollah attacks and, increasingly, the fear of an all-out war against the powerful Iran-backed militant group.
![Israeli security forces deploy near a site where rockets fired from south Lebanon landed near Kfar Szold in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel on June 14, 2024](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-06/43b91af4214f83517f8d0922750ef4a9f445a8a8.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=yXNlIBje)