Against the background of the noise of exploding rockets and constant Israeli drone strikes, the people of southern Lebanon living in the port city of Tyre have decided to defy the hostilities to soak up the sun’s rays and party. Anyone who doesn’t follow the news would not believe that just a few kilometres away towns have been destroyed in the daily rocket fire and people are getting killed. “Coming here is an act of survival in a country where nothing is working,” Batoul Ezzedine told dpa while she was sunbathing on the beach in Tyre. A war has been brewing in the area for months on the Leb…