Beekeeping Under Fire: Tales of Resilience in Northern Israel - video
In this gripping clip, Dave describes facing the dual challenges of tending to their hives and protecting their livelihoods amidst Hezbollah rocket attacks in northern Israel, again and again.
Update: reports of a man injured by falling rocket debris in a kibbutz just north of Tzfat; he's in stable condition, according to Army Radio.
Several brush fires were sparked by red-hot falling debris in several areas, including near Tiberias, but firefighters were able to douse them.
Hezbollah, in a statement to their mouthpiece, al Manar:
"As an initial response to the elimination of al-Attar the martyr, we launched more than 40 missiles towards the occupied territories."
In response, the IDF is reportedly striking Hezbollah targets in several areas of southern Lebanon.
More reports of beekeeping under fire:
And we thought we were just going to look at clever #graffiti wall murals and find fellow #beekeepers...
From a year back:
'Bee'ing There': #beekeeping at the bleeding edge: @neshikhabees Beekeeper Miri and I took an afternoon jaunt up and down winding country roads on a short visit to this small farming village, Shtula - roughly "Implanted" - along the Lebanon border to see the optimistic graffiti murals spray painted along the Israeli side of the bulletproof concrete - and, hopefully, rocket-proof barrier. While Miri kept her eyes peeled for #pollinators, and I filmed, #IDF jeeps patrolled the #security road. Meanwhile, #Iran openly threatens to up nuclear processing and military escalation against #Israel via #Hezbollah - ensconced less than a mile away from where we stood, barely within Israel along the temporarily quiescent border with #Lebanon. Elsewhere, the US and the West wring their hands and blather at feckless #JCPOA nuke sanctions talks in Vienna, teetering on failure. In Washington, Israeli Defense Minister, #BennyGantz, and Mossad chief, David Barnea, are in a last-minute effort to convince President #Biden and senior officials to quit the talks, which #Israel charges are only a ploy by #Tehran to buy time before they can achieve a #nuclearweapon. But - at ground level and closer to home, things are far more pastoral, despite the fact, that Iranian proxy-dug #terrorist attack tunnels beneath residents in this sleepy village. Around us, Israel's heavily-drilled elite #IDF units, and, abroad, the #Mossad ramp up forces, strategies, and tactics against multi-pronged attempts to "annihilate" in the recent words of a top Iranian military official, the #Jewish State. But, despite the fast-escalating international tensions, at ground level, serenity. And we thought we were just going to look at clever #graffiti wall murals and find fellow #beekeepers...
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