James Stout

She was the last person who was killed, but we'll see what happens.

But Amal was not only double tapped.

They had been threatening her over text message, right?

Yeah, so this is a phenomenon that has happened.

Obviously, it's not just journalists, but it's others as well that have gotten threatening messages.

There have been cases, reported cases of people receiving text saying, we're going to attack you now.

You can die by yourself or you can die with your family.

And I want to be clear, until now, that's not a journalist that this has happened to.

Amma did receive threatening text messages.

Other reporters have followed up and messaged the number that messaged her

It's really hard to deduct if this is an actual campaign, if this is somebody within state capacity, or if these are individuals that found her phone number and did that.

However, there is a psychological effect that takes place here, right?

There has been a phenomenon of different municipalities around Lebanon receiving phone calls

from Israeli officials or Israeli military officials warning them of hosting displaced people.

This has been reported in outlets, including in the New York Times and others.

So essentially a psychological effect has began to take hold.

With that as well, there have been a number of calls that are essentially fake calls.

So for example,

A few weeks ago, a neighbor of mine or a neighboring building just a couple streets over reportedly received a warning, a threatening call, threatening them that there might be attack on their building.

Now, that attack never manifested and never developed, at least not at that precise building, though there have been other attacks within a walking distance of my house in the last few weeks.