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Amid Air Strikes and Rockets, an SMS From the Enemy
As Israel intensifies its attacks on Lebanon, eerie messages have been arriving on the phones of civilians on both sides of the border, with authorities in each country accusing the other of psychological warfare.
In the early 2000s, people in Lebanon received recorded phone calls, asking for information about missing Israeli airman Ron Arad, whose plane went down during a bombing mission in the 80s and is now presumed dead. She remembers picking up the landline to hear a robotic voice announce a message that started with the words: “Dear Lebanese people.” That call followed a month-long war, which killed more than 1,000 people and forced 900,000 to flee their homes. Parties at war have an obligation to give civilians advanced warning of attack, says Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa Director at Human Rights Watch.
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