A year on from covering the first weeks of the war on the ground, Nine Europe correspondent Edward Godfrey and cameraman Nick Marsay travelled to Lebanon and Gaza border communities as well as central Israel and the West Bank.
, Nine Europe correspondent Edward Godfrey and cameraman Nick Marsay travelled to Lebanon and Gaza border communities as well as central Israel and the West Bank.Almost everyone is gone. Some left months ago, evacuated by the military.The frontline of the new ground battle is close.There are few people here. Shops are closed. The streets are deserted.
It's Israel's third-largest city and home to the country's largest oil refinery as well as military sites, making it a key target.The near-300,000 residents largely go about their lives as normal, but there's an air of uneasiness.Some rockets land in open spaces, others on homes. A message from the captain told passengers there was "a security situation in Tel Aviv" and we were diverting to Cyprus.On the tarmac, with a phone signal again, I learned what had happened.Israel's airspace was closed and every flight thereafter, cancelled.
The thunderous pounding of targets just across the "no-man's land" buffer, is met with tall plumes of smoke rising above the skyline.I think to myself, how are we still here? And, did anyone ever believe this conflict would go as far as it has? The images of Hamas paragliding into the desert dance party are some of the most haunting from that day.We arrive before dawn to a huge police presence and hundreds of mourners gathering.Stakes with photographs of each of the 364 people murdered here have now been erected in the exact spot their bodies were found.Her arms wrapped around her knees. I notice her sneakers appear to be blood-stained.Every few moments there's another boom that reverberates through your body.
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