Only a few foreign farm workers and their boss remain in neighborhoods now mostly filled with soldiers.
These days, however, the Israeli-Lebanese border has never felt closer to completely erupting.
Its one of the few sentiments about this war that finds agreement across the region.
Palestinians inspect the ruins after the Israeli army withdrew from the Tulkarm Refugee Camp in the West Bank on July 23, 2024.Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images
It is why a cease-fire now could be the only off ramp to what Nader depicts as unthinkable destruction.
A cease-fire would allow them to shout victory.
Haifas increasingly nervous residents stoically await war regardless of nationality.
Twenty-four year-old Walid sits at the bar eating a sandwich, waiting for his shift to start.
Since the war, Palestinian citizens in Israel have been increasingly attacked in the streets and further politically disregarded.
Its clearly Bibi, says Walid.
Hes doing it, its his nation and his vision.
Air strikes and prolonged army invasions have increased this month.
Residents in apartments with blown-out walls look onto their war-wrecked community.
She believes the Israeli government will only relent when Israel pays a higher cost for the war.
Things will get worse, she says.
And they will need to get worse to get better.
A lack of clean water, sanitation, and food, has the UN recording famine across the strip.
Israels obliteration of public infrastructure and its uncompromising siege are the cause.
People just want to end this fucking war, Rajab says, exasperated.
They just want to go back home.
