Residents in northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona anxiously watch as Hezbollah launches hundreds of rockets [Video]

Bracha Rosen dashed through the abandoned streets of Israel’s northernmost city, filling plastic bowls with cat food and water has quickly as she could, as artillery boomed Tuesday from the direction of the nearby Lebanese border.

“I’m terrified. When there are sirens I have to crawl from house to house,” she said, panting with panicked exertion. No one else was taking care of 700 abandoned cats in Kiryat Shmona – which has been under an evacuation order since last October – so Ms. Rosen said she feels compelled to return here three or four times a week despite the danger.

“I can’t sleep knowing they don’t have anything to eat or drink,” she said, looking anxiously at the sky. “But I have to hurry.”

Her fears were not misplaced. Hezbollah launched 190 rockets into Israel on Tuesday, the highest one-day total since the start of the war.

In Kiryat Shmona, …