After a ceasefire was announced between Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel in April, Darine Al Jouny Safadi thought the worst was behind her and returned home to the Christian quarter of southern Lebanon’s port city of Tyre.
Around three weeks later, Safadi and her family were on the run again, fleeing Israeli bombardment for the second time in almost as many months, despite worries they’d never return.
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Their fears were compounded this week when Israel’s military ordered the evacuation of their historic district in Tyre and launched deadly strikes, saying Hezbollah militants were operating there without providing evidence.
Previous evacuation orders had excluded the ancient city’s Christian quarter. Christians in Lebanon like Safadi have watched in horror as their ancestral lands in the south of the country have been pounded. Some have insisted on staying, and are now almost encircled by Israeli troops. Others, like the Safadi family, fled north.
