In Tel Aviv, residents are divided between a sense of “security” and concern about the escalation of the conflict with Hezbollah

Israel no longer rules out the possibility of a land incursion into Lebanon, while bombings continue in the region. Hezbollah, for its part, launched a missile for the first time on Wednesday, September 25, towards the Tel Aviv region, targeting the Mossad headquarters in the center of the country. The missile was intercepted and caused no injuries. The conflict seems to be spreading day by day and in Tel Aviv, life does not stop, but anxiety is growing.

Near the beach that empties at nightfall, Dafan recounts, anguished by what she experienced a few hours earlier. The missile was intercepted while she was swimming: “It was very scary because we heard the ‘booms’ just above us. We saw everything.” However, adds the one who fled one of the kibbutzim attacked on October 7, “I feel safer here, more than in Beeri anyway. And we have a strong army, I think we can handle it.”

Hezbollah wanted to send a message: the militia can launch its missiles anywhere, including in the center that has been spared so far. Yarnin laughs about it: “They have tried so many times. Iraq tried before them, Iran tried before them, Egypt also in 1973. And every time, they are beaten.”he smiles. A feeling of security far from being shared by Nio, worried by the scale that this front is taking to the north: “Everyone is waiting for something more extreme to happen in the centre and I’m a little shaken by it all.”

Life goes on, she said as she walked her dogs. “I’m still here, but I might have to leave one day”she concluded.