When sirens once again sounded in this northern Israel town on a recent Thursday, Ala Ghassan, a paramedic trainee with Magen David Adom, gazed up at the sky with concern.
Pausing for only a few seconds to check for incoming missiles or outgoing interceptors, Ghassan, wearing an MDA flak jacket and helmet, raced toward the shelter located in the basement of the MDA’s Kiryat Shmona station.
The day before, Hezbollah coordinated with Iran to launch a strike on northern Israel, firing more than 200 missiles in the span of just a few hours. Since Hezbollah joined the conflict on March 2, it has launched more than 3,500 rockets, missiles and drones at Israel. Multiple Israelis have been killed, including a woman on the verge of being married on Wednesday and a man in Nahariya on Thursday.
