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 Tir in South Lebanon, right after.
Tir 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 Christou 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 were 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 or 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 Hezbollah installations and you need to leave now for your safety.