A City in Silence: Tyre Empties as Israeli Strikes Loom Over Lebanon Lebanon’s fourth largest city and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Tyre is home to ghosts of previous wars and displacements Andrea López-Tomàs/The Media Line [Tyre] The sun in Tyre, Lebanon is warm, and one must take shelter in […]
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The Media Line: A City in Silence: Tyre Empties as Israeli Strikes Loom Over Lebanon
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A City in Silence: Tyre Empties as Israeli Strikes Loom Over Lebanon
Lebanon’s fourth largest city and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Tyre is home to ghosts of previous wars and displacements
Andrea López-Tomàs/The Media Line
[Tyre] The sun in Tyre, Lebanon is warm, and one must take shelter in the shade to avoid summer sweats. But there are no bars open in which to have a refreshing sip of juice in this popular Lebanese tourist destination. Because there are no bars, and there are no people. “In Tyre, there are only displaced people and medical personnel,” Mahmoud Latuf, a 26-year-old nurse from Tyre, told The Media Line. “Those who have stayed here are here because they cannot leave.”
Tyre no longer has any of the peace of a summer resort. The quiet sounds more like the prelude to tragedy.