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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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William Christou in Tyre

Once a refuge, southern Lebanese city of Tyre empties as airstrikes rain down

Smoke billows over the city of Tyre after Israeli strikes on 23 October.
Despite the evacuation orders and constant airstrikes, some residents of Tyre have decided to stay behind. Photograph: Aziz Taher/Reuters

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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