Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.
In Lebanon,
nearly 700,000 people have been displaced and more than 500 people killed as Israel intensifies its airstrikes there.
Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants sparked the new fighting when they shot missiles into Israel.
The constant barrage of cross-border rocket fire has residents of northern Israel on edge and refusing to leave.
NPR's Kerry Kahn reports.
In the city of Kiryat Shmona, the sound of Israeli military fire into Lebanon is constant.
As are the multiple air raid sirens warning of incoming Hezbollah rockets.
Two Israeli soldiers have been killed since the start of the fighting.
71-year-old Ahuva Lipman says she evacuated along with the entire city during the Gaza war.
This time she's not leaving.
will tell me where to live.
Residents want tax breaks to get people to stay and government incentives to get others to relocate to Israel's north.
Kerry Conn, NPR News, Kiryat Shmona.
In the U.S.,
senators received a classified briefing yesterday from the Trump administration about the war in Iran.
Democratic senators say they are fearful the U.S.
is going to get dragged into another long conflict in the Middle East.
Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal.
The president says that it's nearly complete but the Department of Defense says that it's just begun and the president almost in a single breath says it's almost done and at the same time It's just begun.