Lebanon’s Tyre, once famed for its Roman ruins and white sandy beaches, is a ghost town

Mihaela Chircă

(26 Mar 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Tyre, Lebanon - 26 March 2026 1. Various of destroyed buildings, residents 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nader Al-Ashqar, Tyre resident: ++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED++ “I live in the city of Tyre, and my heart was pounding all night. We were asleep, and in the morning, we woke up to loud banging on the door and gunfire in the air—'Warning! Warning!' We ran as we were, without taking anything with us. We went and sat among the ruins. We saw the