NEWUSER
08-08-2006, 06:19 PM
August 8, 2006 9:30 a.m. EST
Ryan R. Jones - All Headline News Correspondent
Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - The northern Israel town of Kiryat Shmona has been especially hard hit by Hezbollah missile strikes, prompting a large portion of the local population to flee, while many are left to exist in hot, cramped bomb shelters.
The AP reported that those who remain are primarily the sick and poor, who are either too weak to travel or cannot afford accommodations in the safer southern regions of the country.
In some areas, the incessant Hezbollah barrages have knocked out electricity and telephone lines, forcing the hapless victims to sit in the dark with no means of contacting the outside world.
The brief excursions into the fresh air enjoyed during the early days of the conflict have become all but impossible now, after Hezbollah escalated its attacks on Kiryat Shmona in recent weeks. More than 700 rockets have hit the town since July 12.
Rachel Ben-Sheetrit says, "Soon they will have to send us to the madhouse because we are all losing our minds." Unlike their more fortunate neighbors, Ben-Sheetrit and her crippled husband survive on welfare and so cannot afford to relocate with their six children to a hotel elsewhere in the country.
With the war dragging on longer than most had expected, many of those who were initially able to escape are now returning having run out of funds. But the stuffy, pungent bomb shelters are more than some can bear, or, as in the case of 23-year-old asthma patient Eliran Lankri, survive.
Tamar Ashtankar told the AP, "We're worse off than refugees. At least refugees are looked after, nobody cares about us."
While the United Nations has focused attention on the suffering of Lebanon's civilians, some believe it has failed to provide any humanitarian relief whatsoever to the residents of northern Israel.
source: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004469653
source: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060806-055541-2069r
Ryan R. Jones - All Headline News Correspondent
Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - The northern Israel town of Kiryat Shmona has been especially hard hit by Hezbollah missile strikes, prompting a large portion of the local population to flee, while many are left to exist in hot, cramped bomb shelters.
The AP reported that those who remain are primarily the sick and poor, who are either too weak to travel or cannot afford accommodations in the safer southern regions of the country.
In some areas, the incessant Hezbollah barrages have knocked out electricity and telephone lines, forcing the hapless victims to sit in the dark with no means of contacting the outside world.
The brief excursions into the fresh air enjoyed during the early days of the conflict have become all but impossible now, after Hezbollah escalated its attacks on Kiryat Shmona in recent weeks. More than 700 rockets have hit the town since July 12.
Rachel Ben-Sheetrit says, "Soon they will have to send us to the madhouse because we are all losing our minds." Unlike their more fortunate neighbors, Ben-Sheetrit and her crippled husband survive on welfare and so cannot afford to relocate with their six children to a hotel elsewhere in the country.
With the war dragging on longer than most had expected, many of those who were initially able to escape are now returning having run out of funds. But the stuffy, pungent bomb shelters are more than some can bear, or, as in the case of 23-year-old asthma patient Eliran Lankri, survive.
Tamar Ashtankar told the AP, "We're worse off than refugees. At least refugees are looked after, nobody cares about us."
While the United Nations has focused attention on the suffering of Lebanon's civilians, some believe it has failed to provide any humanitarian relief whatsoever to the residents of northern Israel.
source: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004469653
source: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060806-055541-2069r