"We don't know what will happen, where to go from here, there are schools but we don't know when we will return home, it's not an easy situation," says Einav Bitan after dropping her children off for their first day at a school in Elifelet receiving the children of families who were evacuated from their homes near Israel's northern border with Lebanon. Since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in Gaza on October 7, cross-border violence between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah has killed hundreds, mostly in Lebanon, and displaced tens of thousands of residents in both southern Lebanon and northern Israel. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES