They were on a ‘mission for Germany’ to which the Imperial Chancellor Bismarck himself had given his blessing. Their destination was Tyre, which in those days was a sleepy town on the Levant coast.

The strikes in Tyre follow a series of Israeli military operations in Lebanon over recent weeks. Late October airstrikes in the same area caused injuries to 16 people and damage to several ...

Tyre is one of the largest cities in south Lebanon, and the areas under Israeli ... close to Israel's eviction map. It is ...