This is The Guardian.

Today, while the world is looking at Iran and the Strait of Hormuz and Donald Trump's

truth social account, Israel is laying siege to southern Lebanon. I'm here in the city of Teir in south Lebanon right after...

Teir is a jewel of a city on the Mediterranean Sea.

It has arguably Lebanon's best beach, ancient ruins, welcoming people.

But last week, Guardian journalist Will Christo was there to cover a war. So I got in Tuesday morning and I was surprised to see that

despite the debris over the streets and despite the occasional airstrikes, that there's still

a lot of people there. Then Israel issued an evacuation order. Everyone in the city, including journalists like Will, were told to go.

The corridors were just filled with people talking to each other. Are you going to leave?

Are you going to stay? Grabbing bags? Grabbing kids, screaming, trying to run out in time ahead of the bombing.

We decided to stay, and we were sitting on a little pier overlooking the rest of the city and waiting for the bombing to come.

And it was me and a few other journalists and one of us got a phone call.

It was from a Romanian number.

It was an automated voice in Arabic saying this is the IDF.

You're close to Hasbala installations and you need to leave now for your safety.

It really drove home the threat and it was scary.

I went back to my romer on 4 a.m. and that's when the bombing started.

And immediately what you feel is you feel the pressure of the blasts. It rocks the hotel room windows and it sounds loud like thunder outside your room.

And it keeps you up. I mean you can't sleep because you wonder how close it's going to get. And we emerged the next morning and the city, which

had been full of life and had lots of people there just the day before, now it was mostly

empty. And you could see people also couldn't sleep all night. You know, they had days look

on their faces and the air was filled with

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