{"id":1680,"date":"2026-06-11T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:40:07","slug":"lebanons-christians-flee-tyre-fearing-israels-campaign-will-prevent-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s Christians flee Tyre, fearing Israel&#8217;s campaign will prevent return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>June 11 (Reuters) &#8211; After a ceasefire was announced between Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israel in April, Darine Al Jouny Safadi \u200bthought the worst was behind her and returned home to the Christian quarter of southern Lebanon&#8217;s port city of Tyre.<\/div>\n<div>Around three weeks \u200clater, Safadi and her family were on the run again, fleeing Israeli bombardment for the second time in almost as many months, despite worries they&#8217;d never return.<\/div>\n<div>Their fears were compounded this week when Israel&#8217;s military ordered the evacuation of their historic district in Tyre and launched deadly strikes, saying Hezbollah militants were operating there without providing evidence.<\/div>\n<div>Previous evacuation orders \u200bhad excluded the ancient city&#8217;s Christian quarter.<\/div>\n<div>Christians in Lebanon like Safadi have watched in horror as their ancestral lands in the south of the \u200bcountry have been pounded. Some have insisted on staying, and are now almost encircled by Israeli troops. Others, like the \u2060Safadi family, fled north.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This time it felt harder,&#8221; she said of their second displacement. &#8220;Maybe because we had come back and said, &#8220;That&#8217;s it, we&#8217;re back.'&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>On Wednesday, \u200bIsraeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the residents of Tyre&#8217;s Christian neighborhood could return home. Several told Reuters they didn&#8217;t feel safe to do so yet.<\/div>\n<h2>FEARS \u200bOF ERASURE<\/h2>\n<div>Lebanon was drawn into the wider conflict centred on Iran on March 2, when Tehran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in solidarity with Iran, which was under U.S.-Israeli attack, prompting a major Israeli air and ground campaign.<\/div>\n<div>The Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Tyre, Sidon and Dependencies, Elias Kfoury, who has served in the region for more than 30 years through multiple \u200bwars, said the scale of destruction is unlike anything he&#8217;d seen before.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This is the hardest round,&#8221; Kfoury told Reuters. &#8220;It has spared neither people nor stone \u200bnor places of worship nor antiquities.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Christians have been living in south Lebanon for as long as the religion has existed, and today are thought to make up around 30% \u200cof Lebanon&#8217;s \u2060population. Some believe Jesus performed his first miracle of converting water into wine in Qana, a village in south Lebanon, and the region is dotted with ancient churches and religious sites.<\/div>\n<div>Kfoury estimates that the Israeli military has caused more than $100 million in damage to places of worship in south Lebanon. The St. George Melkite Catholic Church was hit by an Israeli strike in a previous war, and remains in ruins.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Israel is trying to erase the memory of the country,&#8221; \u200bhe said. &#8220;Erasing heritage means erasing the record \u200bof the region: the history, \u2060the archaeology and a person&#8217;s connection to them.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>In response to a request for comment, Israel&#8217;s military said it was acting &#8220;solely against Hezbollah military targets, in accordance with international law&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The IDF rejects any claim of intentional harm to civilians, places \u200bof worship, or heritage sites in southern Lebanon,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div>Kfoury accused the international community of failing to hold Israel \u200baccountable and called \u2060for greater protections for the people of south Lebanon.<\/div>\n<h2>FEARS OF PERMANENT DISPLACEMENT<\/h2>\n<div>More than 3,600 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon and more than 1 million &#8211; a fifth of the population &#8211; are displaced. The U.S. declared a ceasefire on April 16 but fighting has continued, and Lebanon says Israel has carried out nearly 3,500 \u2060strikes since \u200bthe truce was announced.<\/div>\n<div>Sitting surrounded by family, Safadi wept at the prospect of being permanently uprooted \u200bfrom her home and community.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Why? I mean, churches that are thousands of years old, how can they be gone? Where are we supposed to go back to?&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;You can&#8217;t explain the \u200bfeeling,&#8221; said her 13-year-old daughter Salma. &#8220;You won&#8217;t see your house anymore &#8230; You won&#8217;t see your church.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1678\">Red-hot SpaceX IPO may burn retail buyers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1676\">Someone is marking a huge \u20188647\u2019 into the grounds of the National Mall in DC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1674\">Oppenheimer launches Wall Street\u2019s first coverage of SpaceX with bullish outlook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a ceasefire was announced between Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israel in April, Darine Al Jouny Safadi \u200bthought the worst was behind her and returned home to the Christian quarter of southern Lebanon&#8217;s port city of Tyre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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