As a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah largely held for a second day, Dunia Najdeh, like many residents of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, returned to check on her home. "It's really tough. We never imagined it would be like this. We got here last night and the smoke was so thick, we couldn't stand it," she says from her balcony as she surveys the destruction in and around her apartment. Anas Mdallali, a tailor from Tyre, fled to the western Bekaa Valley 60 days ago when Israel began bombing the region. He has just returned and, visibly distraught, is gathering what can be salvaged from his home. "We were crying out of heartbreak, not because of the furniture or anything, we were crying because it's heartbreaking that something like this can happen to a city like Tyre," he says, standing by the entrance to his house, blocked by burnt cars and debris. The coastal city of Tyre, Lebanon's fifth largest, has not been spared by Israel's intense air campaign, which has mainly targeted Hezbollah bastions in the south and east, as well as south Beirut. "We are coming out of a crisis that will have made most people lose their minds. Honestly. Sometimes I hear the waves crashing and I get scared and think it's a warplane. We're jumpy," laments Mehdi Istanbouli, a fisherman. The truce, mediated by the United States and France, ended a war that began a day after Hamas's unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, killing thousands in Lebanon and sparking mass displacements in both Lebanon and Israel. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES