Los inhabitants from the Lebanese coastal city of Tire begin to return this Monday at your homes y businesswhich many find damaged by israeli attacksafter passing more than 24 hours no new bombings and with a feeling that calm is still fragile. On the streets of this historic city in southern Lebanon, some residents inspect buildings affected by bombings, remove debris and assess the damage accumulated during months of conflict, as is the case in Hind Husseinwho checks the damage on the balcony of his home after returning from Beirut.
“We were displaced in Beirut, in Dekwaneh, and my parents went to Koura. Under those circumstances many people with took advantage of the situation of the displaced and rents. We couldn’t find housing and, especially, when they knew that we were Shiites, They doubled or tripled the prices.”explains to EFE in the battered living room of his house about the difficulties they encountered.
Houses shattered
The impact of returning and seeing his house destroyed was hard: “I came happylistening to songs about returning to Tyre. But when I got close to the house, I looked up and started crying. I opened the car door, sat here and started crying on the floor. “I knew there was pain, but not this pain.”she says emotionally with her deaf husband, her 16-year-old daughter and her elderly mother. This is the second time that move and who directly suffer the consequences of the war, since in 2024 their father’s business suffered serious damage in a Israeli bombing and recently their new store was destroyed by the debris resulting from the bombing from a nearby building.
His 53-year-old neighbor and merchant, who has just returned to his family after a long journey marked by war, had to leave your home also in 2024, when his home, located near the Abbasiyeh crossing, was destroyed and since then it has chained removals between different locations in the country. “It was very difficult. You were not settled in one place. There were no apartments or houses availableso I stayed with relatives from one place to another. Sometimes I even slept on the beach.”remember.
Skepticism about peace negotiations
Convinced that a truce announced months ago would bring stability, this man returned to Lebanon approximately six weeks ago, but the resumption of hostilities again force him to move passing through Tyre, Sidon, Beirut y Ras el Matán before go back back to the coastal city. The material damage They also accumulate in the family business that was left completely destroyed and the dwelling that rented after losing his house has been damaged in two occasions: “I repaired it once and this is the second time it has suffered damage,” he laments.
A few meters away, Saad silently observes his hardware store and key copying workshop, whose door and façade were left destroyed for the expansive wave of an Israeli attack on a nearby building. His wife remains in Sidon with relatives, while he decided to return to check the state of the business after a day without bombings, despite the fact that the lebanese authorities They recommended not to return to the southern towns in 72 hours fearing that the Israeli Army will restart its attacks.
Saad, who speaks some Spanish after having lived for years in Equatorial Guinea, acknowledges that the constant displacement between Tire and Sidon since March has exhausted many families and, although he hopes that negotiations will end the violence, he views events with caution and distrust. The negotiations “are a failure. They won’t work. “They are making fun of us, as if we were children,” says Hind, although he emphasizes his desire to live in peace.
These three testimonies share their skepticism about the process of talks what’s going onto put an end al conflict between the Lebanon e Israel and they show their doubts regarding the success of the talks that will take place in Washington from June 23 to 25, despite the fact that they want them to be consolidated and definitive peace achieved.
