"For them, we don't exist, we are a shadow, and that what upsets me the most. I am very angry with this government, it needs to be replaced," says one resident of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, as an Arab-Israeli woman describes the sitiation in the "deserted" city where "everybody is afraid." Since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel on October 7, the Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed a near-daily exchange of fire between Israel's army and Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah, a Hamas ally. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES