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In Kiryat Shmona, Residents Live in the Shadow of Hizbullah Rockets
[Globe and Mail-Canada] Carolynne Wheeler - One year after the 34-day war that virtually emptied the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona under a hail of Katyusha rockets fired by Hizbullah from southern Lebanon, northerners say they can smell the next conflict in the air. Today in Kiryat Shmona, the physical scars of the conflict have been entirely erased from the landscape. The 2,002 homes damaged by rockets have been repaired, as have the seven schools and 20 kindergartens. The roads have been resurfaced. Even the 75,000 trees burned in the region have been largely replanted, and then some, thanks to the efforts of the Jewish National Fund and other international diaspora agencies. But the hidden scars are another matter.