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TYRE, Lebanon \u2014 Residents of this ancient and embattled city were being forced Tuesday to choose between two bitter options: stay and risk getting killed by Israeli airstrikes, or leave and become refugees in their own country.<\/p>\n

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And for the first time since Israel launched its latest invasion of southern Lebanon to root out Hezbollah, the Israeli evacuation order also includes Al Hara, the historic Christian quarter of this more than 4,700-year-old city.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI never imagined leaving Al Hara,\u201d Janette Barbour, a married mother of three grown children, told NBC News. \u201cIt is a safe area. We are not armed.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Israel first began bombarding the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah\u2019s positions in southern Lebanon earlier this year, most Al Hara residents stayed put even as the war inched closer to Tyre, Barbour said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf some of the family members left, because they had medical cases, there were always family members that stayed,\u201d Barbour said. \u201cI told you, it is a safe area.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Israelis, however, contend that Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim militant group allied with Iran, is using Al Hara as cover to launch rocket and drone attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n

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So after the Israelis began firing on Tyre, Barbour said she joined the exodus heading north to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI left this morning with my daughter,\u201d Barbour said, adding that she intends to stay with her brother. \u201cMy husband and my son stayed in Al Hara. My son has a caf\u00e9 in Tyre, and my husband has a restaurant in Tyre port, which is also part of Al Hara. They cannot leave their businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of the older Tyre residents are also staying put, she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t want to leave their houses,\u201d Barbour said. \u201cOf course I am afraid, especially because part of my family is still there, but you know Al Hara is a neutral area, no political parties, no arms, so we\u2019re hoping that it doesn\u2019t get attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Founded by the ancient Phoenicians, Tyre has been besieged numerous times, from Alexander the Great to the Crusaders. It has been bombarded repeatedly by the Israelis since 1978.<\/p>\n

When it\u2019s not being attacked by military forces, Al Hara has been overrun by waves of tourists coming to admire a section of the city that has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, and sample some of the best sandy beaches on the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n

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A worker at an Al Hara hotel, who asked that neither he nor his workplace be identified for fear of winding up in the crosshairs of an Israeli missile, said most of their guests have fled. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have around 10 people in the hotel,\u201d the worker said. \u201cMost of them don\u2019t want to leave Tyre, and the others don\u2019t know where to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The worker said he\u2019s staying put too, but most of his neighbors are gone. <\/p>\n

\u201cMind you, for the first time, many families left Al Hara,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are afraid, it\u2019s only human, but we decided to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lily Hawila, a 29-year-old English teacher, lives a few miles away from Al Hara in a section of Tyre called Al Houch. She too has fled her city.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis area was attacked during the 2024 war,\u201d Hawila said. \u201cOur apartment was damaged; shattered glass and broken doors. We fixed it when the ceasefire took place in November 2024. Today I don\u2019t know what happened to our apartment. What I am sure about is that all the buildings of the street and other streets are on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When the fighting first started, Hawila said she rented an apartment in the Chouf Mountains northeast of Tyre for her mother and her brother, who now lives in Poland and had come home for a visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father did not leave Tyre,\u201d Hawila said. \u201cHe\u2019s staying with his old mother at Al Bass, which is also an area in Tyre that is not very safe by the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sana Abou Zeid, a 50-year-old mother of three grown children, lives in a densely populated section of Tyre called Al-Masaken.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time we get an evacuation order from the Israelis, I go and reside with my children\u201d outside the city, Zeid said. \u201cAnd when it is safe, we go back home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zeid said her eldest son is serving in the Lebanese army and her youngest son is in high school. They can\u2019t imagine living anywhere else besides Tyre, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot leave Tyre because my children don\u2019t want to,\u201d Zeid said. <\/p>\n

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But as Zeid was speaking to a reporter, she received word that her street had been bombed and that eight people were killed. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are anxious,\u201d Zeid said. \u201cLet\u2019s hope that we can stay where we are now, and not have to be displaced to another area. And let\u2019s hope that we can return home soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zoya Awky reported from Tyre Lebanon. Corky Siemaszko reported from New York City.<\/em><\/p>\n

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