"I'm shaking in fear," says Ida Lannkri, a 62-year-old Israeli pensioner living in the town of Shlomi, close to the northern border with Lebanon. Many residents are leaving just a few days after the Hamas offensive, launched from the Gaza Strip. "We have this feeling that it could happen here too," says Leon Gerchovitch, 40, who doesn't want to leave his house. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES