Streets deserted amid attacks and evacuation orders, which critics claim are designed to provoke mass displacementMiddle East crisis – live updatesThey 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. Continue reading...
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