Tyre no longer has any of the peace of a summer resort. The quiet sounds more like the prelude to tragedy. On the way to Tyre, the smoke from an airstrike on a hill brings that sense even closer, just like the crater that welcomes you at the entrance to the southern city.

At least 10 firefighters have been killed in an Israeli air strike in a border area in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry says. A statement said the firefighters had been “ready to go out on rescue missions” from a municipal building in Baraachit when it was struck overnight.