The university announced that all staff members stationed above the fifth floor of the thirty-story building would be working from home in a statement released the morning after a rocket fell on a football field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing twelve children and teenagers. There’s growing concern that they could come under threat from Hezbollah, a militant organization based in Lebanon.
According to Esther Parpara, a university faculty member, “their weapons reached Haifa in the last war with Hezbollah in 2006.” “This is a perilous time. When it comes to kindergarten patrols, parents assist police and guards. I’m staying away from busy areas. We are not looking for conflict; Hezbollah is.
Since Hezbollah fired rockets and shells at Israeli locations on October 8 in retaliation for Hamas’s attack on Israel the day before, there has been a steady increase in cross-border firing between Israel and Lebanon. The Israeli state must be destroyed, according to both parties.
Hezbollah has attacked Israel on a regular basis, targeting the Golan Heights, which Israel annexed in 1981 after capturing it from Syria in the 1967 war. Israel has attacked southern Lebanon and beyond with missiles and airstrikes, including a series of raids that occurred overnight that were ostensibly in reaction to the rocket firing on Saturday.
