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In the early 2000s, people in Lebanon received recorded phone calls, asking for information about missing Israeli airman Ron Arad, whose plane went down during a bombing mission in the 80s and is now presumed dead..
The latest Israeli airstrikes on Hezbollah targets on Lebanon have been the deadliest in decades, with 558 people killed on Monday alone, according to the countrys health minister...
Across the border, civilians in Israel have also been receiving threatening texts, with the eerie messages demonstrating the psychological role that personal smartphones are now playing in the conflict, on both sides of the border...
Between 8 am and 8:30 am on Monday, 80,000 people across Lebanon received these messages, according to a spokesperson for Lebanese telecoms network Ogero who declined to be named..
One of those calls rang through to the office of Lebanons minister of communication, Ziad Makary, who attributed the message to psychological warfare by the Israelis...
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