There is nothing normal about the lives of Tyre’s residents. The largest city in southern Lebanon — beloved by local and international visitors as a Mediterranean paradise amid banana plantations and the ruins of ancient civilizations — is currently grappling with the fear of becoming a prime target for the Israeli army. Although Lebanon is under a supposed temporary truce, Israel left its message written on four residential buildings it demolished in the city center at the last minute before the ceasefire. Now, the rubble from those attacks — one of which, described by locals as an earthquake, was a massacre, leaving some 20 dead while two more people are still missing — has instilled in residents the fear that Israel will resume the war with the same ferocity with which it paused it.

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