Israeli citizens are redefining the meaning of the term, “Home Front”
Six weeks into Israel’s war following the Gaza massacre, Israeli citizens are redefining the meaning of the term, “Home Front.”
In the days after Simchas Torah, thousands of residents of the Gaza periphery were given hours to pack up their lives and board buses away from the war zone, temporarily resettled in hotels in Eilat and the Dead Sea. Thousands more, too fearful to remain in homes where they’d had to cower in bomb shelters, fled on their own. Like shipwreck survivors, they washed up on the shores of towns and cities across the country.
Days later, the same happened to thousands of residents of Israel’s northern border regions. With Hezbollah poised to attack, authorities ordered entire communities emptied. In their wake, many more fled, as the Lebanese terror group rained missiles on the region.
As up to 200,000 refugees — those evacuated and those having decided to flee on their own — suddenly drained into the country’s center and authorities were caught flat-footed and struggled to cope, civilian society stepped up to the plate.
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