She said she also tells her children, "We're very lucky.""I tell them that the army takes care of them for us, they ask us to go underground so that nothing falls on our heads, while they're taking things down," she said."[I'm] trying to use language to make it understandable, without adding unnecessary trauma." In the middle of the kibbutz, there was a reminder of how febrile the situation is — a home, all but destroyed as a result of "friendly fire" when an Israeli interceptor hit the building.Hezbollah drones, laden with explosives, have hit other buildings in communities like Misgav Am in recent weeks.Israel and Lebanon announced they had agreed to a ceasefire in April, amid US negotiations about ending the war with Iran "We are people who look like everyone else and who want to live alongside everyone else."Back on the Israeli side of the border, the urge for peace was clear — but the blame for the situation was different. Yael Brodie, a resident of Metula (which is surrounded to the north, east and west by Lebanon), said the Lebanese government had failed to take responsibility for curbing Hezbollah's influence and power. "I used to live on the edge of Metula [an Israeli town right on the border] with people from Lebanon putting lasers in my eyes and shouting, and I'm like 'it's OK, they're mad, let them be mad, whatever,'" she said. "And since the 7th [of October], things have changed, and you understand that people are by your house, ready and want to kill you just because you're a Jew or whatever