VIDEO - While some residents of communities along the northern border left their homes for more secure locations, 32 foreign volunteers decided to stay in Kibbutz Baram which lies along the Israel-Lebanon border despite rocket attacks by Hizbullah and the booms of IDF cannons.
Raf Wiley of England told his worried parents he is in Eilat. But in a month, when he returns home, he will tell them the truth.
"I was in kibbutz Baram not far from where a Hizbullah post once stood," he told Ynet.
This is Wiley's second trip to Israel but this time he chose to volunteer for a kibbutz in the north following advice from friends.
About the war he has only good words for Israel :"Hizbullah should be stopped. They are hiding behind a civilian population. You can't blame Israel."
For Lanamfila Radbe of South Africa this is the first trip to Israel. "I am not scared anymore. Hizbullah must die. Nasrallah must die," he said.
Unlike Radbe and Wiley, Sara Park of South Korea, who is also under the threat of missiles from the north, refused to point the accusation finger to any side. "It hurts that civilians are hurt," she said.