The Zionist entity's bombing of Tyre, south Lebanon. Photo: Reuters.
The Israeli army heavily bombed the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on the morning of October 23, using so-called “fire belt” bombing to destroy entire residential blocks in the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Tyre, Lebanons fifth largest city, has been repeatedly bombed by Israel this morning. pic.twitter.com/L7W1gdJyU4
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) October 23, 2024
An as-of-yet-unknown number of buildings have been destroyed in the center of Lebanon’s fifth-largest city.
“Hezbollah’s activity forces the IDF to act in the area you are in. The IDF does not want to harm you,” Israeli Colonel Avichay Adraee, the army’s Arabic-language spokesman, announced via social media on the morning of October 23, alongside a map of the areas that the regime planned to carpet bomb.
#عاجل بيان عاجل لسكان منطقة صور في لبنان
⭕️الانذار موجهة تحديدًا إلى المتواجدون في المباني بين الشوارع: الحيرام, جعفر شرف الدين, أبو ديب و شارع الاثار⭕️أنشطة حزب الله تجبر جيش الدفاع على العمل ضده وبقوة حيث لا تنوي المساس بكم
⭕️عليكم بالأبتعاد فوراً الى خارج المنطقة المحددة… pic.twitter.com/5ngkUehGJm
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) October 23, 2024
“You must immediately move away from the area marked in red and head north to the Awali River. Anyone who is near Hezbollah personnel, facilities and weapons of Hezbollah is putting their life in danger!” Adraee added.
Lebanese civil defense officials told Al Jazeera earlier in the day that “the entire city is being evacuated” in response to the Zionist threats, which amount to turning any area they target into a kill zone.
“This is only going to add to the pressure on places like Beirut, which doesn’t have any more government shelters. People are sleeping on the streets, on the Corniche along the beach, and living in tents,” the Qatari news outlet’s correspondent in the south of Lebanon reported.
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At least 200,000 people inhabited the city of Tyre before the expansion of the Zionist entity’s war on Lebanon. The ancient city has been continuously inhabited for more than 4,000 years, rising to prominence as a key maritime and trade hub in the Mediterranean under different empires.
Over one million people have been internally displaced in Lebanon, as western governments have given the Zionist entity the green light to expand its war against the crisis-hit nation.
