Video: 'No end in sight': Evacuated Israeli town braces for possible war with Hezbollah

On the border between Lebanon and Israel, an almost daily rocket fire that started on October 7 threatens to ignite a bigger war. And communities on both sides are caught in the crossfire. Avichai Stern, the mayor of Israel's northernmost city Kiryat Shmona, goes to the site of a recent Hezbollah rocket attack to assess the damage. His town is just a mile from the border with Lebanon, making it an easy target. But the buildings here are now largely empty. In the days after October 7, the Israeli army evacuated 125,000 residents from border areas for fear of another major attack. It is the largest internal displacement in the country's history. Now, more than three months after the Hamas attack, the government is facing mounting pressure to push Hezbollah forces back from the border and get more than 20,000 evacuees from Kiryat Shmona home. There are others, like the city's former mayor, who decided to stay and say they have lived with the threat of Hezbollah for years. He argues that the government should not have allowed the residents to leave in the first place. The Israeli defense system intercepts some missiles, but many get through here. Mayor Stern shuttles between his city and state-funded hotels south, reminding residents and evacuees that Hezbollah's elite Radwan force still poses a threat. In his speech to soldiers in Kiryat Shmona on January 9, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will hit Lebanon with the same intensity as Gaza if Hezbollah does not withdraw. In recent days, the Israeli military said it has been deployed along the entire northern border and is ready to defend and attack. Despite pleas from his residents, Mayor Stern says there is no end in sight to the evacuation of his city.