Once a refuge, southern Lebanese city of Tyre empties as airstrikes rain down
Streets deserted amid attacks and evacuation orders, which critics claim are designed to provoke mass displacement
They call him the prince of doom. A phone vibrates at 3am and his face appears on X. He is delivering a message: leave or die.
The messenger is Avichay Adraee, the Israeli military’s Arabic language spokesperson. In what is frighteningly good Arabic for a non-native speaker, he yells into his phone’s camera, telling Lebanese people to evacuate certain areas “for their safety” before strikes on what Israel says is Hezbollah infrastructure.
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