{"id":568820,"date":"2026-07-31T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/568820\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:27:08","slug":"special-report-israels-psychological-war-on-the-lebanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/568820\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Report: Israel’s psychological war on the Lebanese"},"content":{"rendered":"

For almost three years, the daily lives of the Lebanese have been scored\u00a0by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Since the prospect of renewed hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah materialized<\/a> into a full-scale war following Hamas\u2019 terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, the buzzing of Israeli drones has become a constant feature of Lebanon\u2019s soundscape.<\/p>\n

Lebanese people have lived with Israel\u2019s military presence for decades. The two have been in an almost constant state of war, or at best frozen conflict, since 1978<\/a>, with occasional periods of relative calm. Living under this near half-century-old shadow of war has equipped the Lebanese people with an admirable yet tragic level of resilience to armed conflict. Israel\u2019s strategy, however, has evolved. Drones have become a terrifyingly effective tool in modern, asymmetric warfare, a development Israel has taken full advantage of. The IDF has been using drones<\/a> at an unprecedented scale for surveillance, intimidation, and murder across Lebanon. Given the prolonged regional conflict, the occupation<\/a> of southern Lebanon, Israel\u2019s apparent impunity on the international scene, and Lebanese officials\u2019 inability to assert the country\u2019s sovereignty over its territory, the long-term consequences of Tel Aviv\u2019s drone warfare on the Lebanese people are grave. This paper\u2019s aim is not to highlight the physical destructiveness of drones, but to draw attention to the intimidation, oppression, and psychological warfare carried out by the IDF against Lebanese civilians, a strategy that amounts to collective punishment and torture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For almost three years, the daily lives of the Lebanese have been scored\u00a0by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-568820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}