Beachgoers play beach tennis on the public beach in Sour, southern Lebanon, June 16, 2024 (Photo: Olivia Le Poidevin/L'Orient Today)
SOUR — The public beach in Sour, one of the most historic cities in the region, typically attracts a huge number of people on summer weekends thanks to its sandy shores and picturesque ancient ruins. This year, however, the atmosphere is different. From their sun loungers, beachgoers hear and sometimes see the ongoing strikes in southern Lebanon amid daily cross-border exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah.“I come here every Sunday. We are used, as Lebanese, to wars every now and then. People don’t care,” says Hassan Karaki, who traveled down from Beirut for the day. He is originally from Khirbet Silm, in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, an area that has been bombarded several times, and where Hezbollah commander Wissam Tawil was killed on Jan. 8 in an Israeli strike. "At the end of the day, we can’t stop what is...
SOUR — The public beach in Sour, one of the most historic cities in the region, typically attracts a huge number of people on summer weekends thanks to its sandy shores and picturesque ancient ruins. This year, however, the atmosphere is different. From their sun loungers, beachgoers hear and sometimes see the ongoing strikes in southern Lebanon amid daily cross-border exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah.“I come here every Sunday. We are used, as Lebanese, to wars every now and then. People don’t care,” says Hassan Karaki, who traveled down from Beirut for the day. He is originally from Khirbet Silm, in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, an area that has been bombarded several times, and where Hezbollah commander Wissam Tawil was killed on Jan. 8 in an Israeli strike. "At the end of the day, we can’t stop...