Adeeb, the Arab defending his Israeli village from attacks from Lebanon
Anna Foster
Reporting from the Israel-Lebanon border
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Adeeb Mazal is part of the emergency team in his northern Israeli village, which nestles next to the border wall with Lebanon.
“We have a very small group of security men,” he tells me. “I think we need at least 20 people - because we are on the border - but we are only five.
"We ask all the time for more people and more weapons, we can’t defend the village like this. We hope the authorities will give us as many as 30 men."
The day before we meet the team had sprung into action.
“There was an infiltration of some terrorists from Lebanon and we had to go to the shelters, all of the residents," he says.
"My group and the army went to a defence post, there were some shootings and wounded on our side.
"We are now trying to keep to a regular life, but we’re asking people to always be close to a bomb shelter.
“These organisations [attacking us] do not divide between Jews and Arabs. We are Arabs, we have a mosque, and they continue to harm the village."
