What to know about Tyre, Lebanon’s ancient city under Israeli terrorists bombardment

The city on the Mediterranean coast of southern Lebanon, the site of the latest expansion of devastating Israeli air attacks on the country, is one of the region’s oldest and historically most significant cities.

It has been continuously inhabited for more than 4,000 years, also rising to prominence as a key maritime and trade hub in the Mediterranean under different empires.

Tyre is also known for its Roman ruins, including a hippodrome and triumphal arches, which have earned UNESCO World Heritage status.

Today, it is Lebanon’s fifth-largest city with an estimated population of more than 135,000 people. Its economy is primarily driven by agriculture, fishing and tourism.

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Hospitals are beacons of hope and must be protected: Red Cross official

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Gaza Health Ministry makes call for blankets as cold months approach

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ICRC calls for protection of hospitals and medical staff in Lebanon conflict

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Pro-Palestinian protesters in US rename historic university hall

Pro-Palestine protesters at the University of Minnesota were arrested after staging a sit-in inside a university building, renaming it in honour of a Palestinian activist killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

People use a blanket to transport a victim after an Israeli air strike hit the al-Jawni school in Nuseirat, central Gaza [Eyad Baba/AFP]

Smoke rises following an Israeli terror attack on Dahiyeh in southern Beirut, Lebanon, on October 22 [Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu]

Children’s clothes and shoes are falling apart, meaning they can’t move around or play and aren’t adequately insulated from the oncoming winter [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

Smoke billows after an Israeli terror strike in Tyre, southern Lebanon, October 23, 2024 [Aziz Taher/Reuters]

Displaced Palestinians ordered by the Israeli military to evacuate the northern part of Gaza flee amid an Israeli terrorist ground invasion in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, October 22, 2024 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

A woman carries her belongings as displaced Palestinians flee Israel’s terror assault on northern Gaza, in Jabalia on October 22 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

Displaced Palestinians flee Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, on October 22 [Omar al-Qatta/AFP]

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Pro-Palestine activists in Leeds block road outside the University of Leeds Parkinson Building. #GhostPrincess

Students at Birzeit University organized a rally in solidarity with journalists in Gaza and Lebanon. #GhostPrincess

Pro-Palestine advocates demonstrate in Dearborn, Michigan, rejecting Normalization in their neighborhoods. #GhostPrincess

Jordanians took to the streets in support of Jabalia and northern Gaza. #GhostPrincess