Image from Ya Liban
Inna Lazaerva, Time: Inside the Village Caught in the Crossfire Between Israel, Syria and Lebanon
When loud explosions rocked the small hilltop village of Ghajar — partly located in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights — a few months ago, a sense of terror that a long dreaded conflict had finally arrived rippled through the local residents.
As the locals dove to the ground, five anti-tank missiles whizzed past their windows aimed at IDF (Israeli Defence Force) vehicles on a road two miles away. Two Israeli soldiers were killed on the spot. The sixth missile, which had possibly gone astray, struck a house in Ghajar, piercing through the roof and setting it on fire.
“Amazingly, there was no one inside — the mother and two children left only 10 minutes previously”, says Najib Khatib, Ghajar’s spokesman, shaking his head.
WNU Editor: What I always find amazing about these stories is the reluctance of the people who are living there to move .... even when under constant threat from war. I guess it says something about the human condition.