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October 7 Hamas Attacks: How Life Changed at Israel's Borders, One Year

Israel's military has also exchanged fire with Lebanon-based, Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah almost the entire time, with Hezbollah saying it was acting in solidarity with Hamas.
Conflict has intensified in recent weeks, with Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and other senior officials killed in strikes by Israel, which is also believed to be behind the exploding pager and walkie-talkie attacks that killed at least 37 people and injured more than 3,000.
The northern Israeli kibbutz of Matzuva, just over a mile from the Lebanon border. Ishay Efroni, head of security for the regional council covering it, feared for families planning to return. Ellie Cook
As of September 26, near-constant firing across Israel's northern border had displaced an estimated 200,000 people in southern Lebanon and upward of 60,000 people in northern Israel. Officials there say the current situation cannot go on.
"Eleven months, nearly a year—what changed?" Efroni said. "Nothing."
There has, however, been a "major change" in the mentality of Israelis in the north over the past 12 months, said Sarit Zehavi, a former intelligence officer and retired lieutenant colonel in Israel's military who now runs the Alma Center, a research organization focused on Israel's northern border.
With Hezbollah just 6 miles away—the range of the group's lethal anti-tank guided missiles—and tensions rising, they fear a repeat of October 7 but in the north. "Can you tell them to live next to Hezbollah now?" Zehavi said, speaking to journalists at the center, some seven miles from the border.
"There is no reason that we would take the chance that there will be another massacre."

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