hezbollah militants israeli cities and towns are being shelled. in this new district of kiryat shmanaear ago, life was in full swing a year ago, now all these resort pearls of the israeli north and kiryat shmana and metula are more like ghost towns, houses abandoned, closed, shops, non-working schools. alex korachun, vice-mayor of a city where there have been no residents for a long time, seems to be left alone guarding the abandoned city economy. people were here all the time, because here... in size and territory there were no large cities with high population densities and civilians, including beirut, so as not to provoke a decisive response from hezbollah. but as practice shows, israel rarely does exactly what is most expected of it, and therefore any scenario cannot be ruled out . according to analysts, one of the likely targets of a retaliatory strike could be baalbek, a city in eastern lebanon 100 km from the israeli border. in the city itself there are architectural monuments of the ancient roman era. objects of the world unesco heritage site, in its vicinity there are the lar