James Stout

That being said, you know, that has a psychological effect because many people will not take the risk.

They'll leave.

Other times you'll find cases where people will get some sort of call or people in the building will get some sort of call.

They'll write it off as fake and they won't leave their house.

And so there have been people who have seen warnings coming one way or another.

I'm not saying it's directly through a phone call, but through one way or another and thought, you know, whatever the case, we're not going to leave our homes and they end up dying and in strikes.

So there is absolutely a psychological effect.

And we have no way of knowing if these fake calls are coming from the Israeli military or officials or individuals or just other people playing pranks.

All those things can be true to varying levels.

A neighbor who lives above me got a call from ostensibly a Cuban number that was like an automated recording of sorts.

And through her mind, she started thinking, you know, what are the different possibilities of these calls?

What sort of chances do I want to take?

Incidentally, a day or two later, I got a call from a Cuban number as well.

And I just chose not to pick it up because at that point we had figured out it was very likely to be fake.

But this has a psychological effect.

And this is one of the many things that Lebanese people are dealing with when we talk about this sort of psychological warfare through the things like, you know, calls,

Warnings of your neighborhood or of your entire village at times, or maybe even of your building, sonic booms, distribution of leaflets, all these things are happening simultaneously.

When we talk about the things that Ahmad received, again, this is the targeting of media workers and journalists.

And you will see kind of this international indifference.

Luckily, now there's been kind of...