Mosab Abu Toha
When I was wounded in January 2009, I was 16… I was still a child.
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Omer Bartov
Newsletter 148
June 12, 2026
S.O.S. LEBANON
S.O.S. ISRAEL
S.O.S. PALESTINE
This is the second series of S.O.S. we are sending. In the midst of the frightful night. The time now is 4 :19 a.m.. There is no artificial intelligence behind this. It is only human. Whoever you may be, you will recognize the human nature of real voices. We are sinking. Human lives are lost. Scores are threatened.
We sent the first series eight units ago, to 175 Nobel destinatories worldwide, connected to all companies. Only three answered. Offering reception and understanding. One said it was « dark everywhere » The next one, a Peace vessel, answered to « keep up ». The last one, another Peace vessel, sounded helpless. « I don’t even know what to say… I feel a deep scream in my soul… the words escape me… »
We are no part of the Sumud flotilla, as we share a different worldview. Theirs is too restricted to us, unilateral, antagonizing – but stating this will antagonize some, and there is no time for that. There is no time. No time left. Pass it on. Lives are at stake. Pass it on.
Coordinates 33°53’23’’N/35°30’01’’E…33°16’08’’N/35°12’59’’E…
33°20’81’’N/35°57’00’’E…31°81’70’’N/34°97’67’’E…
32°09’09’’N/35°15’24’’E… 31°50’17’’N/34°46’68’’E…
It’s the growing extension of the warfare state. The spreading of what radical muslims call the dar al-harb, war territory. It covers more and more space. From Mar Elias church in Damascus, the Manchester synagogue, England, and the Bondi Beach massacre, Australia, to the Islamabad mosque attack in Pakistan in February this year.
Open the scope. Unlockdown yourselves.
S.O.S. GAZA :
Is this picture from Gaza or Lebanon ? Emaciated and hardened as the child is, it must be from Gaza. How many like him ? Twenty thousand children disappeared, blown up into blood and dust in two years. Omnipresent ossuary in the horrendous stenchy ’open’.
What’s it gonna take ? Have we forsaken our own humanity ?
Thousands of bodies trapped under Gaza’s rubble
Gazan families are still unable to bury dead trapped under rubble
ABC, May 17, 2026
The heat in Gaza is stifling, starting in May. 80% humidity. Hundreds of thousands living in tents.
Last message from Gaza as of June 8 :
‘[…] They have just targeted a flat in our area and there are a number of casualties. We are not safe. They allow little food and expensive as well. We cannot afford to buy fruits or vegs, which means another face of the starvation and hunger. ‘
When a shell comes close, you wonder where the next one is going to hit, closer, and whether the one after that may hit you. Do they have real targets, or is it just some sick boy playing with his rich boy’s toys ? Or obeying whose orders ?
Israel’s Solution to the Gaza Problem Is Well Underway / The Banality of Evil
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, May 30, 2026 / Ahmad Tibi, September 16, 2025
Suspicious, biased ? By the end of May, the army was ordered to take over 70% of the Gaza Strip. Over two million survivors squeezed into slightly over 100 square kilometers of rubble and ruins. Where do we go from here ?
S.O.S.LEBANON :
Israel said it’s applying the Gaza model in Lebanon. This is what the devastation looks like
Samuel Granados, Abdi Latif Dahir, Sanjana Varghese, The New York Times, May 3, 2026
On average 11 children killed or injured every 24 hours in past week in Lebanon: UN
Al Arabiya, May 29, 2026
‘We’ve already heard these promises’: In Lebanon, the announcement of a new cease-fire struggles to convince
Layal Dagher, L’Orient Today, June 5, 2026
Israel Attacks Lebanon 3,500 Times Since April Cease-fire, Lebanese PM Says
Reuters, June 8, 2026
Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon kill 17, reports say
David Gritten, BBC, June 10, 2026
Vatican envoy’s aid convoy stopped by Israeli forces in south Lebanon: Convoy member
Al Arabiya, June 12, 2026
[Should I, should we go to Lebanon now ? To Beirut, Tyr… A straight flight costs over a thousand euros. One stop-over through Turkey is half-price. You have to see for yourself, with your own eyes… A French delegation of MPs and MEPs did the job lately, meeting President Aoun and a whole array of people – if they managed to make it, why should not others ? Courage emulates.]
S.O.S. ISRAEL ? How dare we focus on Israel now, in the wake of what it inflicts upon its neighbours, with its thousand drones (one third of them attack drones), its 600 American bombers and helicopters, its two thousand tanks ?
For the sake of friends and loved ones, on both sides of the divide. Intertwined as they all are.
Who remembers there are two million Arab Israelis, living right next to, in the midst of some seven million Jews – almost twenty percent of them so religious that they refuse to carry a gun, let alone serve in the army ?
‘We Will Enlist and Die’ vs ‘We Will Die and Not Enlist’
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, June 7, 2026
WATCH: Haredi draft protests shut down highways, trains for two hours, scuffle with police
The Jerusalem Post, June 11, 2026
Forgo abstractions, labels and speeches, a prioris and flags.
Wherever you look around, all you see is people.
From America, I received this other s.o.s. message, from a dear one who served in the Marines in Viet-Nam, and who chose to become a preacher when he returned :
« I’m sick of the war. I’ve been in combat and seen the destructive nature that people assume the longer they are in war. »
If you wonder what that means, you can check it up with observers, witnesses willing to testify, Hazel Brief, Adam Rasgon, Or Hadar, Gid’on Lev, Nir Gontarz, Yael Lee, Ella Ben Emanuel, Manuela Dviri, Rossella Tercatin :
Who has the rights to a soldier’s soul: bereaved mother’s open letter to Betzalel Smotrich
Hazel Brief, YNet News, June 11, 2026
After new attacks, Israelis lament a ‘never-ending loop of war.’
Adam Rasgon, The New York Times, June 8, 2026
« Dashing back and forth to bomb shelters. Classes canceled. Businesses closed… »
25,000 wounded since Oct. 7 push Israel toward major rehabilitation overhaul and budget rise
Gal Ganot, YNet News, June 8, 2026
A nation in distress, a system of prescriptions: Israelis are drowning in pills
Or Hadar, YNet News, June 3, 2026
In Gaza, in Lebanon, where are the pills, the drugs needed against hypertension and cardiac disease ?
Country, Interrupted: War Has Triggered Clinical Mental Illness in Millions of Israelis
Gid’on Lev, Haaretz; May 2, 2026
[How I’d love to forget it all, just let it be, not return… Let it all drown deeper and deeper, out of sight, sickening as it has become… Healing through oblivion… But then, what of my dearest friends,
Najib and his family in Sebastiya ; Adam, Ava and their three teenage sons in Haïfa ; Malik in Balata ; Arik in Jerusalem ; my shelter at one of the Gates of the Old City; Ran and the other Nir Oz refugees in Kyriat Gat… Amir, Mahdi, Abdennour, and their families, in Gaza…]
Listening to Yael Lee, whose son is a ‘combat engineer’ in Lebanon :
‘I have a weight on my heart all the time. All the time.[…] in the end it’s very clear that there is nothing to do except lie down and pray [facing drones]. It’s really like they’re sitting ducks.
[…] overall, in this country, in this government, there is no one watching over him, he’s of no interest to anyone. These kids are simply cannon fodder.
But that’s how I raised him. Partly out of stupidity, and partly out of naivete. And this country really was different. […] I truly believed that human lives were important. I truly believed we were peace-seeking. I truly believed that war was only a last resort. I truly believed that after every war would come dialogue and there would be an agreement, and that there would be an end to this madness.’
Why Did You Let Your Son Be a Combat Soldier? ‘I Was Naive. I Truly Believed Israel Sought Peace’
Nir Gontarz, Haaretz, June 5, 2026
We are all sick to death of war
Ella Ben Emanuel, The Times of Israel, June 4, 2026
28 years after her son fell serving in Lebanon, activist mother slams IDF’s return
Rossella Tercatin, The Times of Israel, June 3, 2026
[Right now, I have but one wish, to be allowed to return to Gaza, after visiting my friends in Nir Oz, Kyriat Gat, be able to meet and hug those whom I know in Gaza, whom I miss, and fear for.
Given that I am granted a permit, like before, how shall I stand the amount of devastation ? How can we restore life and care ?]
[Every day, there is just too much chaos rushing in, from all directions. We also hear about ceaseless fire in Ukraine, Russia, Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria… Still, Gaza and Jerusalem remain the hinge between the continents and peoples, Muslims, Jews, Christians. Caught in time as we all are, we are only striving to stop the murderous flows feeding on indifference and ignorance. Restore the minimal trust and common sense to make people feel better.
As Mahdi wrote, in Gaza, « we are determined to live and exist regardless of the pain and suffering. » The day his daughter Hayat got engaged, he added : « we could force ourselves to smile and be happy.’ As he also wrote at the end of 2025 :
‘[with] your help and support… You encourage us to smile and live. You indeed heal our wounds and alleviate our suffering.’]
Can we still endure much more than we think we can ? We are losing lives. As if doctors and surgeons did not already have their hands filled with cases in ordinary life ! So, by all means, pass it on. Let your scream out. Pass it on. Make peace happen.
For now, we’re running out of vital fuel. Hopefully, we’ll emit again soon. There is more you should know about the way the whole thing is unraveling. When we say, we are sinking, it is not just an image. It is a slow, insidious process. May 2026 was the worst we’d been through in all these years. June isn’t looking any better. But there’s talk of an imminent agreement between the POTUS and the Islamic Republic of Iran . Check on our lifeline :
Details of the imminent draft agreement between Tehran and Washington
Egypt Today, June 12, 2026
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