fellowship | July 18, 2024
Israel's northern border has become a war zone, where rocket attacks by the terrorist group Hezbollah have made life there unimaginable as Israelis live in constant fear of rocket attacks.
When terrorist rockets fall, no one is safe: not the elderly, not families, not even the places that are supposed to provide care and protection in times of crisis, like the soup kitchens the Fellowship supports.
Tensions remain high at the Beit Batiya soup kitchen after it was hit by a Hezbollah rocket that caused extensive damage to the soup kitchen's roof, but they remained open and continued to deliver emergency meals to those most in need, like Yenta.
“Despite the war, cooked meals continue to arrive every day,” Yenta says, “and we don't have to worry about running out of food.” Her hands begin to tremble when I tell her that a few days ago, a soup kitchen in Beit Bacha was hit by a direct missile and damaged. “We didn't know this because the explosions were going on and meals were still arriving every day.”
Many of our elderly beneficiaries were locked in their homes while the rockets fell, waiting for the terror to end.
It's a miracle that precious Yenta survived the attack, and it's a miracle that Beit Bacha Soup Kitchen is still operating in this war zone after the missile attack, which is why the hundreds of Fellowship meals you help deliver every day to housebound seniors like Yenta are so important.
