内容摘要：Ms Prior and Mr Welford were both killed in the crash, while a teenage boy suffered serious injuries.

Ms Prior and Mr Welford were both killed in the crash, while a teenage boy suffered serious injuries.

An hour later, as we arrived at nearby Kibbutz Lavi, home for the past year to families evacuated from further north, sirens sounded once more.Rockets appeared in the sky overhead and as we were ushered into an underground shelter full of children and their artwork, we heard a series of deep resonant booms.

An hour later, more alerts, another safe room and more distant explosions.Hezbollah had been firing rockets further into Israel, even before the latest escalation. But now an even larger swathe of northern Israel is in the firing line.All of this is adding a sense of urgency to the government’s actions.

Speaking after a meeting with defence chiefs, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel was changing the balance of power in the north.“We are facing complex days,” he warned.

“We do not wait for a threat,” he said. “We anticipate it. Anywhere, in any arena, at any time. We eliminate senior officials, eliminate terrorists, eliminate missiles.”

Having seized the initiative, Israel’s military seems determined to keep Hezbollah on the back foot, in the hope of realising the government’s aim of returning civilians to homes evacuated along the northern border."They disregarded that to make some money from drugs.

"It caused utter devastation."For Katherine, finding out her son had been killed because of the illegal activities of a criminal neighbour only worsened her grief.

"It sickens me that it could have been prevented," she says. "You are supposed to trust your neighbours."This is more upsetting for us because someone chose to do that, it was their choice, not ours."