NARRATIVE – The Israeli army has never been so at the heart of its country. Reservists are rushing to defend a nation they know is under threat if the Middle East burns after a military intervention in Gaza. We are talking about 400,000 armed men and women.
Israel’s Be’er Sheva Hospital is located in the last city before the Negev Desert, which extends to Aqaba in Jordan, where Lawrence of Arabia once tried to unite the tribes of the Middle East. In this modern building, built like the rest of the city in the 1980s, the authorities sent almost a thousand wounded, survivors and soldiers in the first days. 48 are still in hospital. “Most of them were sent home or to other hospitals in the country to free up beds in case new wounded arrived from the front,” explains the hospital director. Israel has not yet launched the announced offensive against Gaza, but the entire society is preparing for it. Also hospitals.
On this day we accompany the star chef Eyal Shani, who is very well known in his country after ten years as the presenter of the “MasterChef” program. The restaurants are closed. “People no longer dare to go out, and the government is banning education…
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