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Thousands of bodies trapped under Gaza’s rubble

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 ?

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

Media June 2026

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Mosab Abu Toha.
Check Yuval Harari out…

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Yuval Noah Harari to NYT: ‘On Oct. 7, Hamas secured a stunning, humiliating military victory over IDF’

Children fill jerrycans with water from a large white UNICEF water tank in a shelter area in Gaza.

Newsletter 147

June 2, 2026

S.O.S. ISRAEL

S.O.S. PALESTINE

Latest echoes :

Former commander of Beaufort Ridge warns against romanticizing operation, holding outpost
Amir Bohbot, The Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2026

Trump said to yell at Netanyahu: ‘You’re f**king crazy. You’d be in prison if not for me’
Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg, The Times of Israel, June 2, 2026

Where can we go from here ? Silence and dismay do not apply.

Dear Nobel/noble mind and friend,

Always grateful for your echoes, up to the last one, of May 11 : « Dark those prospects are, but you, Yacov, have faced such darkness before. Keep working for peace.

And there are moments of hope and joy… »

I know you have faced much darker times than I ever have, as an infant during such a terrifying period of humankind. Yuval Harari, in his 2018 essay 21 Lessons for the 21st century, claimed, to start the WAR chapter : « The last few decades have been the most peaceful era in human history » – but the subtitle is Never underestimate human stupidity. He is rated as one of the most brilliant minds worldwide. So maybe he should be listened to in his latest interview – have you read it ?

Notably that part which says : “If you look at the way that Israel is treating the Palestinians, not in Gaza but in the West Bank, there is no security justification for that,” he said. “They did not attack Israel on Oct. 7. And by Israel’s actions, the chance that there will be a peaceful agreement with the Palestinians is decreasing.”

Daniel Edelson, YNet News, May 27, 2026

Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010916807/yuval-noah-harari-on-the-mistake-strongmen-keep-making.html

Ezra Klein, The New York Times, May 26, 2026

The way that Israel is treating the Palestinians in the West Bank ? The day we met in Tel Aviv, March 7, 2025, when I left you, so happy feeling we could have met, I received a call from Nablus : the most important mosque there, the Al Naser mosque, had been torched in the night by a rogue platoon.
Did you hear about it ? Did anyone in the West hear about it ?

Al Naser mosque ? Think of the Sacred Heart in Paris, Saint Paul in London.

Not just the fact that it had been raided and set fire to, but that this was not covered by the media.

There are supposed to be ceasefires across the Middle East, but the fighting is worsening
Sam Metz, AP News, June 2, 2026

In Iran the ceasefire was agreed on April 8, almost two months ago. Is this what a ceasefire feels like ? In Gaza, the ceasefire was decreed on October 10, 2025. Eight months ago.

Over nine hundred persons have been killed in Gaza since the day of that ceasefire. Forty of them children and women.

Gaza: 26 killed over Eid holiday, UN rights investigators report

UN News, May 29, 2026

How do we know what we know ?

If not by going there, crossing the lines, from keeping our mind open to a number of sources : The Jerusalem Post, The New York Times, The Times of Israel, Ynet News, UN News, but also L’Orient Today, the BBC, Al Arabiya, Haaretz, China Global, the Tehran Times, the Jordan Times… Open the range, not to remain trapped in any one zone of comfort.

Not « only » the people, a vast majority of civilians, killed and maimed in Gaza after the ceasefire, but over two million human beings surviving in rubble and pestilence. « Nearly the entire population remains displaced and concentrated “into a progressively narrower strip of land”, with multiple displacement orders issued in recent days. « (UN News, May 29, 2026).

I know Gaza. I know Gazans. As a civilian myself.

Over a quarter of a century I have been involved in Israel and Palestine. My first pilgrimage, voyage was in the late eighties during the First Intifada. I spent time in Gaza then. The level of hatred was so high. Gaza was a dangerous place to be in the eighties for a stranger. Who remembers the War of Stones ? Now we have gone from stones to drones, and they fly from the North.

Who remembers that this first uprising lasted five years and nine months, to be concluded with the Oslo Accords in September 1993, opening the way to a solution of Palestinian sovereignty within five years – before the end of the century ?

What have the children born since the start of the Second Intifada, September 2000, known ?

Who remembers this second uprising lasted four years and four months ?

How many times did the army rush into the Gaza Strip, with full might, tanks and bombers, shells and missiles ? Four wars are recalled. 2008-2009. 2012. 2014. 2021. To culminate in 2023-2025.

What have the Gaza children born after the 2005 Israeli disengagement known ?

Gaza was a dangerous place in the eighties, but when I returned, for a few years, from 2008 to 2013, with an Israeli permit, it was different. I loved Gaza. Simply. Its people, its youth, their good-natured smiles, their seriousness, their warmth. Blockaded as it was, it still was a happy place – in between army raids. The 2014 war burnt the bridge for me.

Yet, the peace seeds we planted there, as a humanitarian non-governmental organization, seemed to sprout in 2018. It was even printed in the New York Times. David Halbfinger wrote about it, April 15, 2018. « It was a striking tableau… » said he. Gardeners missing down the line though.

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We’re all taught the codes and languages of business, management, math, physics and all, but where do they teach the basic lexicon and grammar of listening and coexisting ? Where on earth ?

This is what we find in Gaza today, both soldiers and civilians :

Dead animals, tetanus and rabies: IDF soldiers stationed in Gaza face extreme conditions – report
The Jerusalem Post, May 25, 2026

Plague of rats and insects provides latest challenge for war-shattered Gazans
Khaled Mohamed, UN News, April-May 2026

Has the world forgotten Gaza amidst the smoke of war with Iran?
Hasan Dajah, The Jordan Times, May 20, 2026

Thousands of bodies trapped under Gaza’s rubble
ABC, May 17, 2026

Have I known such darkness before ? Not in my years. Through the murderous insanity in Bosnia in the nineties, in Kosovo at the turn of the century, during the Second Intifada into 2005, then in Algeria, the « dark decade » – this being the field of my personal experience in war zones – no, I have known nothing of the sort. Never known such spreading darkness.

Bosnia 1993-1996, Kosovo 1999, Palestine & Israel 2000-2005, Algeria until 2002, the pits of evil somehow were filled again with rationality, and the warring groups came to a closure, for the sake of survival and common sense. Kosovo was even torn away from Serbia, and decreed a sovereign state in 2008, recognized as such by 110 countries worldwide – ever since, peace has prevailed between Serbia and sovereign Kosovo.

Here, the evil that flared up in October 2023 with the Palestinian attack from Gaza has culminated in some seventy five thousand deaths, some fifty thousand of them women and children. In February-March 2026, this horrifying evil has metastasized into more war, more devastation, into Iran, and Lebanon, to this very day.

3,371 people killed, over ten thousand wounded, in Lebanon, since March 2. 1.2 million people ‘displaced’, were forced away from their homes, out of six million – can you imagine ? Twenty percent of Americans, that would mean close to seventy million people on the roads, or sixteen million Germans for that matter. You tell me what it means.

So, you bomb and displace, North and South, just because you have the means to do it, without the least shred of awareness, awareness of consequences ? And you cover up reality, under the guise of speeches about freedom vs terrorism ?

Treating people like abstract pawns in a video game, like cattle to the slaughterhouse.
Is this how you define the defence of democracy in a free society ?

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In loving memory of Vivian Silver (center front) who died an atrocious death in her burning shelter on October 7, 2023.

This picture was taken in October 2016, when Women Wage Peace walked through Israel, from North to South, East to West, from Dimona to the Gaza Wall here. I was there, with them.

Eighteen months before the preceding picture, taken behind the wall, within the Gaza Strip, with Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mandela. Ismael Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran on July 31, 2024.
How long till we all become blind, from the Eye for an Eye virus ?

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Media June 2026

Despite record $100 million shortfall, Palestine relief agency still ‘a critical platform’ for Gaza recovery
UN News, June 30, 2026

How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’
Quique Kierszenbaum, Julian Borger, The Guardian, June 29, 2026

First, There Were No Innocents in Gaza. Now, the IDF Is Applying the Same Policy in the West Bank
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, June 28, 2026

Knesset panel to advance measure freezing arrests of Haredi draft evaders for 90 days
Ariela Karmel, Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, June 28, 2026

Israel damaged heritage sites during ops. against Hezbollah, Lebanese culture minister says
Reuters, The Jerusalem Post, June 28, 2026

The Trump Administration Struck Two Contradicting Deals: Israel-Lebanon, and U.S.-Iran. Now What?
Liza Rozowski, Haaretz, June 28, 2026

Leaked draft reveals Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace seeks total legal immunity, free property – report
Aaron Glick, The Jerusalem Post, June 28, 2026

Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show
Cate Brown, Aram Roston, The Guardian, June 27, 2026

Hezbollah rejects US-brokered Israel-Lebanon security deal as ‘surrender’
Al Arabiya, June 27, 2026

Waltz with Naim: Trump’s agreement inspires optimism in Hezbollah
Michael Milshtein, YNet News, June 27, 2026

IDF says strike killed Oct. 7 terrorist commander, nephew of ex-Hamas chief Haniyeh
Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, June 27, 2026

Israeli drone strike hits southern Lebanon day after security deal
Al Arabiya, June 27, 2026

‘Fear of civil war’: government pushes halt to arrests of Haredi draft dodgers
Shilo Freid, Itamar Eichner, Gal Ganot, YNet News, June 27, 2026

Trilateral Framework Between the United States of America, the State of Israel, and the Republic of Lebanon
U.S. Dept of State, June 26, 2026

US considering moving Gulf bases hit by Iran westward, including to Israel — report
The Times of Israel, June 26, 2026

Settlers Tried to Torch Palestinian Homes. They Messed With the Wrong Village
Gideon Levy, Alex Levac, Haaretz, June 26, 2026

Europe’s bloody hands revealed
Soheila Zarfam, The Tehran Times, June 26, 2026

Netanyahu vows to maintain occupation of south Lebanon; Washington talks reset after impasse
Abbas Mahfouz, L’Orient Today, June 25, 2026

Israel says will only withdraw troops from Lebanon after Hezbollah disarmed
Al Arabiya, June 25, 2026

Palestinians warn West Bank antiquities bill designed to expand Israeli control
Reuters, The Times of Israel, June 25, 2026

‘We will not lose our heritage to Israel,’ Culture Minister sends a message to Israel from Sour
Rana Najjar, L’Orient Today, June 25, 2026

Israeli troops fatally shoot a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank
Al Arabiya, June 25, 2026

Gaza Board of Peace prepares for Cyprus summit as first Moroccan contingent deploys – analysis
Seth J. Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2026

Israeli and Lebanese officials deny any partial Israeli withdrawal from ‘buffer zone‘
Reuters, L’Orient Today, June 25, 2026

Trump asks Congress for billions for Iran war, after tension with Republicans
Kwasi Gyamfi Asedu, BBC, June 25, 2026

Trump meets arms makers as US pushes to rebuild missile stockpiles
Reuters, YNet News, June 25, 2026

Iran warns Israel must withdraw from Lebanon ‘voluntarily today or it will be forced to flee defeated tomorrow’
Renee Robledo-Davis, Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah Abdallah, L’Orient Today, June 25, 2026

We Launched a New Jewish-Arab Party – and We Won’t Throw Away Any Votes
Alon Lee-Green, Haaretz, June 25, 2026

Haredi protest motorcade threatens nationwide traffic chaos: ‘We’ll see if the police stop us’
Shilo Freid, Roy Rubinstein, YNet News, June 24, 2026

Israel Braces for Mass Haredi Protest, Disruptions Expected Across Major Roads
Aaron Rabinowitz, Yair Foldes, Haaretz, June 24, 2026

U.S. Support Is Israel’s True Weakness
Yonatan Touval, The New York Times, June 24, 2026

Israeli former leaders and security chiefs threaten legal action over ‘Jewish terrorism’
Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian, June 24, 2026

Israeli Soldiers Were Sent to Harass a Bedouin Community That’s Halfway to Expulsion
Amira Hass, Haaretz, June 24, 2026

400 public figures sign a call to save Lebanon
L’Orient Today, June 23, 2026

‘All the Jews are sick of you’: Trump exploded at Netanyahu before Gaza deal, book claims
YNet News, June 23, 2026

Top Israeli Defense Official Calls Urgent Meeting on Plan to Displace Gazans
Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, June 23, 2026

New UN inquiry: Israel ‘deliberately’ killed Palestinian children, resulting in genocide
Mathilda Heller, Yonah Jeremy Bob, The Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2026

UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children
David Gritten, Stephanie Hegarty, BBC, June 23, 2026

Senate Votes to Check Trump’s War Powers, Rebuking Him on Iran
Robert Jimison, The New York Times, June 23, 2026

UN maritime body says to begin evacuating sailors in Gulf
AFP, Al Arabiya, June 23, 2026

Moroccan military officers arrive in Israel to join nascent international Gaza force
The Times of Israel, June 23, 2026

The Israeli Far-right’s West Bank Land Grab and Why It’s a Ticking Time Bomb
As the World Watched Gaza, Settlers Charged Ahead in the West Bank. A Clash Is Imminent
Yarden Michaeli, Matan Golan, Haaretz, June 23, 2026

Ex-hostage to UN official who doubted Oct. 7 rape: ‘I am living proof’ of Hamas sexual violence
Nava Freiberg, The Times of Israel, June 23, 2026

Nearly one million Gazans remain in tents amid extreme summer heat
The Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2026

Iran’s foreign minister says ‘major progress’ made to end Lebanon war in talks with US
The Times of Israel, June 22, 2026

Israel, the Country We Love, the Country We’re Ashamed Of
Sefy Hendler, Haaretz, June 22, 2026

The Israeli Occupation Is Nothing Special
Odeh Bisharat, Haaretz, June 22, 2026

Lebanon says Israel-Hezbollah war toll tops 4,000 after 83 killed Friday, over 12,000 wounded
AFP, The Daily Star, June 21, 2026

Since the October 2025 ceasefire, 265 Palestinian children have been killed across Gaza – one child, on average, every single day
UN News, June 21, 2026

Donald Trump Has Fulfilled My Dream: For Israel to Pay for Its Actions
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, June 21, 2026

Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes kill 10
The Jordan Times, June 21, 2026

Renowned Lebanese Sea Turtle Conservationist Killed by IDF Attack Near Tyre
Zafrir Rinat, Haaretz, June 21, 2026

Renowned Lebanese turtle conservationist succumbs to wounds sustained in Israeli strike
The Times of Israel, June 21, 2026

Top Shas rabbi: US-Iran deal is divine punishment for arrests of Haredi draft dodgers
Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, June 21, 2026

WATCH: Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah killed in targeted Israeli strike
Al Jazeera, June 21, 2026

Israeli strikes kill six people in Gaza including Al Jazeera cameraman, officials say
Mallory Moench, BBC, June 21, 2026

Steadfast on her orange line, Mona Khalil lived to protect life
L’Orient Today, June 21, 2026

Israel seeks to normalise Gaza-style occupation in Lebanon
Nour Odeh, Al Jazeera, June 21, 2026

Israeli army has been ordered to cease fire in Lebanon, Hezbollah accuses Israel of being ‘fully responsible’ for violations of the truce
L’Orient Today, June 20, 2026

Israel and Hezbollah Are Still Fighting, Several Cease-Fires Later
Euan Ward, The New York Times, June 20, 2026

Behind Trump’s confession: the ‘oil catastrophe’ that pushed him to cut losses in Iran
News Agencies, YNet News, June 20, 2026

Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist Mona Khalil in Lebanon
Oliver Holmes, The Guardian, June 20, 2026

Lebanon state media says five dead in fresh Israeli strikes on south
AFP, The Jordan Times, June 20, 2026

The IDF’s Russian Roulette in Lebanon Continues – and No One Can Explain Why
Amos Harel, Haaretz, June 20, 2026

Lebanese turtle conservationist Mona Khalil killed by Israeli strike
Samantha Granville, BBC, June 20, 2026

Fighting Persists in Lebanon, Complicating Iran Peace Talks
John Yoon, Abdi Latif Dahir, Julian Barnes, The New York Times, June 20, 2026

Israel kills at least 9 in Gaza including child, photojournalist: Reports
Egypt Today, June 20, 2026

The military fight against Hezbollah: A failed approach
Mohammad Barakat, L’Orient Today, June 19, 2026

At Least 18 Killed, 33 Wounded in Israeli Strikes, Lebanese Health Ministry Reports
Yaniv Kubovich, Jack Khoury, Haaretz, June 19, 2026

Mona Khalil, ‘guardian of the turtles’ of Mansouri, succumbs to injuries after Israeli strike on her home
L’Orient Today, June 19, 2026

Israeli minister says ‘all of Lebanon must burn’ after 4 soldiers die
L’Orient Today, June 19, 2026

‘I was supposed to die. I survived and led the Beaufort raid’: Golani commander on the raid
Raanan Shaked, YNet News, June 19, 2026

Mideast Live Updates: Attacks in Lebanon and Delay in Talks Test U.S.-Iran Deal
Francesca Regalado, Zolan Kanno-Yooungs, Jonathan Reiss, The New York Times, June 19, 2026

‘Nobody’s Born a Soldier’: The Israeli Teens Who Say the Draft Is a Choice
Linda Dayan, Haaretz, June 19, 2026

Mona Khalil, ‘guardian of the turtles’ of Mansouri, succumbs to injuries after Israeli strike on her home
L’Orient Today, June 19, 2026

Geneva Palais Briefing: A child a day: The deadly illusion of Gaza’s ceasefire
UNICEF, June 19, 2026

Lebanon says 18 killed in strikes, Israel reports deaths of four soldiers
Al Arabiya, June 19, 2026

Israel Is Conducting a Systematic Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in the West Bank
Ehud Olmert, Haaretz, June 18, 2026

Ex-Israel PMs, Security Chiefs to Netanyahu: Act Against West Bank Jewish Terror
Amos Harel, Haaretz, June 18, 2026

Stop Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Amnesty International, June 2026

Vance slams Israeli ‘freakout’ over Iran deal: ‘You can’t just kill your way out of solving’ every security problem
Linda Dayan, Times of Israel, June 18, 2026

JD Vance on the Morality of the Trump Administration
Ross Douthat, Victoria Chamberlin, The New York Times, June 18, 2026

UN upholds freedom of movement for peacekeepers in Lebanon
UN News, June 18, 2026

Israel has killed or maimed an average of 12 children a day in Lebanon since March 2, UNICEF says
L’Orient Today, June 18, 2026

Iran War Live Updates: Vance Defends Iran Deal, With a Blunt Warning to Israel
The New York Times, June 18, 2026

‘Can’t kill your way out of every problem’: JD Vance spars with Ben-Gvir, Smotrich over Iran deal
Goldie Katz, The Jerusalem Post, June 18, 2026

Death toll from Israeli fire in Gaza since ceasefire passes 1,000, says health ministry
Reuters, June 18, 2026

Gaza in the spotlight as dire conditions continue
UN News, June 18, 2026

Mapped out: Israeli army formalizes expansion of its ‘operations zone’ in south Lebanon
L’Orient Today, June 18, 2026

Weapons, money and ships: How is this Iran deal different from others?
Ben Chu, BBC, June 18, 2026

Security Council LIVE: Gaza in the spotlight as dire conditions continue
UN News, June 18, 2026

Israel approves Hebron construction without Palestinian consent for first time in decades
Idan Bloemhof, YNet News, June 17, 2026

Smotrich claims historic Hebron shift as Israel advances new building plans
Hodaya Ran, The Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2026

Creeping annexation is devouring Gaza. Washington is pouring the concrete.
Garsha Vazirian, The Tehran Times, June 17, 2026

Lebanon: 12 children killed, maimed daily, despite Hezbollah-Israel truce
UN News, June 17, 2026

Hands on the trigger, eyes filled with absolute distrust toward the enemy
The Tehran Times, June 17, 2026

Trump Says Iran ‘Has to Have Some’ Ballistic Missiles, Saying Gulf States Also Have Them
Reuters, AP, Ben Samuels, Haaretz, June 17, 2026

Iran expands diplomatic coordination with Russia, China, and Oman following Islamabad Accord
The Tehran Times, June 17, 2026

A Look at the Text of the Agreement Between the United States and Iran
The New York Times, June 17, 2026

Argentine lawyer from Global Sumud Flotilla reports on torture of activists in Israeli detention
Silvina Pachelo, The Tehran Times, June 17, 2026

Gaza Death Toll Tops 73,000 Amid Fresh Deadly Israeli Attacks
Rawan Suleiman, Associated Press, Haaretz, June 16, 2026

Trump declares Iran deal complete; Pakistan says ceasefire begins immediately, includes Lebanon
YNet News, June 15, 2026

Oil Prices Tumble After Trump Announces Deal With Iran
Rebecca Elliott, Joe Rennison, The New York Times, June 15, 2026

US-Iran peace deal announced with ‘permanent’ end to military action
Al Arabiya, June 15, 2026

U.S.-Iran Deal Reached, Includes ‘Immediate Termination’ of Fighting in Lebanon
Ben Samuels, Haaretz, June 15, 2026

UK, France, Germany, Italy ready to lift Iran sanctions after US-Iran deal, say Iran can ‘never’ get bomb
Reuters, The Times of Israel, June 15, 2026

US and Iran announce deal to end military operations as Trump says ‘let the oil flow!’
BBC, June 15, 2026

The Jewish Ku Klux Klan Has a Calculated Plan for the Palestinians
Amira Hass, Haaretz, June 15, 2026

Israel tells Trump it is not bound by Lebanon clause in Iran deal
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, June 15, 2026

Trump says Netanyahu almost derailed US-Iran agreement, should thank US for reaching deal – report
The Jerusalem Post, June 15, 2026

US, Iran reach deal to end war, Trump orders stop to naval blockade
AFP, The Jordan Times, June 15, 2026

Trump insists Middle East peace deal ‘hours’ away, blames Israel for delay
Al Arabiya, June 14, 2026

In Israel, Broad Discontent Over the Emerging U.S. Deal With Iran
Isabel Kershner, The New York Times, June 14, 2026

Israel should stop all strikes in Lebanon, IDF threatens chance of ceasefire, Trump says
Maya Zanger-Nadis, The Jerusalem Post, June 14, 2026

Palestinian media says Israel holding bodies of two teens killed in West Bank
AFP, The Jordan Times, June 14, 2026

Trump Claims Strait Will be ‘Permanently Toll Free’ Under Agreement With Iran
David Sanger, The New York Times, June 14, 2026

At least 1 killed, 4 wounded in Israeli strike on Beirut suburb
Egypt Today, June 14, 2026

Bennett to ToI: ‘We’re at an existential moment. Another four years with this government, we won’t have a society
Tal Schneider, The Times of Israel, June 14, 2026

Israel army issues evacuation order for 29 south Lebanon villages
AFP, Al Arabiya, June 14, 2026

Israeli escalation in Lebanon: Netanyahu is ready to do anything to torpedo the Iran-US deal
Mounir Rabih, L’Orient Today, June 14, 2026

Trump says US-Iran deal to be signed on Sunday as Tehran casts doubt on timing
Jaroslav Lukiv, BBC, June 14, 2026

Israeli strikes near Gaza hospital kill 4 Palestinians
L’Orient Today, June 14, 2026

US-Iran deal ‘in final stage,’ signing set for Sunday, Pakistan says
Lior Ben Ari, Agencies, YNet News, June 13, 2026

Aoun: Lebanon faces a choice between a sovereign state and militia rule
L’Orient Today, June 13, 2026

Israel carries out air strikes on Lebanon, state media says, as Iran claims deal with US near
Gary O’Donoghue, Jack Burgess, BBC, June 13, 2026

Details of the imminent draft agreement between Tehran and Washington
Egypt Today, June 12, 2026

A Dangerous Limbo Leaves Iran, and the World, Between Peace and War
Mark Landler, Anton Troianovski, The New York Times, June 12, 2026

Iran media says draft deal with US would end war including in Lebanon
AFP, The Jordan Times, June 12, 2026

Trump calls off strikes on Iran, claims agreement could be signed this weekend in Europe
Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, The Times of Israel, June 12, 2026

The World Is Draining Oil Reserves, Raising Pressure for a Peace Deal
Rebecca F. Elliott, Lazaro Gamio, The New York Times, June 12, 2026

Oil falls to near two-month lows as Trump calls off threatened strikes on Iran
Al Arabiya, June 12, 2026

Ships Stranded by War Face Costly Dilemma: Wait It Out or Risk Attack
Jenny Gross, The New York Times, June 12, 2026

Vatican envoy’s aid convoy stopped by Israeli forces in south Lebanon: Convoy member
Al Arabiya, June 12, 2026

Israel Pushes Regulations to Legalize West Bank Farm Outposts
Bar Peleg, Matan Golan, Haaretz, June 12, 2026

Israel finances 61 new settlements in occupied West Bank before even approving them
Amélie Zaccour, L’Orient Today, June 12, 2026

Israel releases Hamas co-founder, father of ‘Green Prince,’ after more than two years of detention
Maya Zanger-Nadis, The Jerusalem Post, June 12, 2026

Has Haredi Power in Israeli Politics Reached Its Peak?
Joshua Leifer, Haaretz, June 12, 2026

EU foreign policy chief reportedly compared Israel to apartheid South Africa in closed-door talks
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, June 12, 2026

Who has the rights to a soldier’s soul: bereaved mother’s open letter to Betzalel Smotrich
Hazel Brief, YNet News, June 11, 2026

Iran hit again by US strikes, retaliates and vows to close Hormuz Strait
Renee Robledo-Davis, Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah Abdallah, L’Orient Today, June 11, 2026

Thousands sit in traffic as Haredi protesters cut off central highways, block railroad
Charlie Summers, The Times of Israel, June 11, 2026

Chronicle of sanctions foretold: how Israel became the most boycotted nation in the world
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, June 11, 2026 [FR: Le Drian held the FM’s job in 2017; Barrot is in charge]

As IDF prepares to build post in Jenin, 2 soldiers hurt, 1 seriously, in blast
Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, June 11, 2026

IDF Builds First Permanent Military Post in Palestinian-controlled West Bank Since 1990s
Chen Maanit, Yarden Michaeli, Haaretz, June 11, 2026

Israel to approve plan to fund de facto establishment of 61 new settlements, Axios reports
Reuters, L’Orient Today, June 11, 2026

WATCH: Haredi draft protests shut down highways, trains for two hours, scuffle with police
The Jerusalem Post, June 11, 2026

Diaries from Gaza: With the transportation crisis, one trip leaves me exhausted for two days
Noor Alyacoubi, L’Orient Today, June 11, 2026

IDF Strikes Kill 30, Wound 92 in Lebanon Over Past Day, Health Ministry Says
Rawan Suleiman, Haaretz, June 10, 2026

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon kill 17, reports say
David Gritten, BBC, June 10, 2026

No adult in the room: the strategic vacuum behind the Iran war
Adv. Avi Kalo, YNet News, June 10, 2026

The bully and the schemer
David Horowitz, The Times of Israel, June 10, 2026

Inflation Jumps as Iran War Intensifies Price Squeeze
The New York Times, June 10, 2026

Clashes in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh: Hundreds of Haredim protest over arrest of draft evaders
Shilo Freid, Idan Bloemhof, YNet News, June 10, 2026

US truce breaches have undermined diplomatic efforts, Iran says
The Tehran Times, June 10, 2026

Iran War Live Updates: U.S. Launches Strikes on Iran; Tehran Claims Attacks on U.S. Fleet
The New York Times, June 10, 2026

Hezbollah’s disarmament must also be approached from a social and economic perspective, Aoun tells LFI delegation
L’Orient Today, June 9, 2026

Everybody Is a Loser in This Mideast War
Thomas Friedman, The New York Times, June 9, 2026

Bowen: Trump and Netanyahu wanted to reshape the Middle East – now they risk a permacrisis
Jeremy Bowen, BBC, June 13, 2026

Empowered after Oct. 7, IDF settler units are terrorizing Palestinians, critics say
Stav Levaton, The Times of Israel, June 9, 2026

UN inquiry says Israeli authorities enable settler attacks on Palestinians
Reuters, L’Orient Today, June 9, 2026

UK and allies condemn settler violence in West Bank amid ‘deteriorating’ situation
Al Arabiya, June 9, 2026

A major Israel settlement push across occupied West Bank
Najla Shahwan, The Jordan Times, June 9, 2026

‘You don’t just leave Sour like that’: Despite Israeli threats, a resident refuses to leave the city
L’Orient Today, June 9, 2026

Israel Strikes Lebanese City of Tyre as U.S.-Brokered Truce Falters
Euan Ward, The New York Times, June 9, 2026

Behind Israel’s halted Iran strike: Dozens of jets waited for the order until Trump called Netanyahu
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, June 8, 2026

Iran’s strike on Israel suggests the regime’s sense of resilience is growing
Amir Azimi, BBC, June 8, 2026

25,000 wounded since Oct. 7 push Israel toward major rehabilitation overhaul and budget rise
Gal Ganot, YNet News, June 8, 2026

After new attacks, Israelis lament a ‘never-ending loop of war.’
Adam Rasgon, The New York Times, June 8, 2026

Infant killing in West Bank highlights Israeli impunity
Noura Doukhit, L’Orient Today, June 8, 2026

‘All of Gaza Is Affected’: Israel Shuts Border Crossings, Halting Aid Amid Iran Clash
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, June 8, 2026

Israel is fighting on four fronts and has killed everyone who could end it
Zvika Klein, The Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2026

Resuming War Is a Short-Term Political Boon for Netanyahu, but Grim Choices Await
David M. Halbfinger, The New York Times, June 8, 2026

Israel Attacks Lebanon 3,500 Times Since April Cease-fire, Lebanese PM Says
Rawan Suleiman, Reuters, June 8, 2026

Lebanon heritage site damaged by Israeli bombardment — official to AFP
AFP, The Jordan Times, June 8, 2026

Arnoun mayor fears Israeli destruction of Beaufort Castle
Noura Doukhit, L’Orient Today, June 8, 2026

Israel depends on reservists, it’s time to build policies around that reality
Ivri Verbin, The Jerusalem Post, June 7, 2026

‘We Will Enlist and Die’ vs ‘We Will Die and Not Enlist’
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, June 7, 2026

In Iraq, the war off the radar
Clara Hage, L’Orient Today, June 7, 2026

Police nab 2 suspects in Huwara settler rampage; IDF yet to identify uniformed assailant
Charlie Sumers, Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, June 7, 2026

From Hamas to Huwara: What’s the Difference Between Jewish and Palestinian Terror?
Esther Solomon, Haaretz, June 7, 2026

A half-hour of fear: how residents endured an armed attack by settlers on Huwara
Basam Abu al-Rob, Wafa, June 7, 2026

Israeli strikes kill 20 people in 24 hours in Lebanon
L’Orient Today, June 7, 2026

9 Palestinians wounded in settler rampage in Huwara; IDF soldier seen beating man
Noam Lehman, The Times of Israel, June 6, 2026

Inside the structural collapse of Israel’s global legitimacy
Garsha Vazirian, the Tehran Times, June 6, 2026

Forget Bibi and October 7: This Year’s Election Should Be About the Haredim
David Rosenberg, Haaretz, June 6, 2026

Retaliatory strikes on US bases reflect Iran’s firm response to continued aggression
the Tehran Times, June 6, 2026

9 Palestinians injured by Israeli settler attack in N. West Bank
Xin Hua, June 6, 2026

Hundreds of Haredi rioters try to break into Jerusalem police station, attack cops in Beit Shemesh
The Times of Israel, June 6, 2026

100 days of war: Iran’s epic resistance
Maedeh Zaman Fashami, the Tehran Times, June 6, 2026

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

Is the world turning its back on Israel? Poll shows Israel’s global image sinking
Daniel Edelson, YNet News, June 5, 2026

Hardline right-wing MKs Ben-Gvir, Smotrich banned from travel to Ireland – report
The Jerusalem Post, June 5, 2026

Who Will Stop Smotrich, if Not The Hague?
Amos Shocken, Haaretz, June 5, 2026

France launches war crimes investigation over Israel’s interception of Gaza flotilla
Israel National News, June 5, 2026

Report: Israel’s secret bases established near Iran
Nitsan Keidar, Israel National News, June 5, 2026

Fire aboard USS world largest aircraft worse than Navy disclosed, footage shows
YNet News, June 5, 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 strikes southern Lebanon after ordering evacuations of nine villages
William Christou, Lorenzo Tondo, The Guardian, June 5, 2026

Lebanon crisis: needs soar as UN launches new funding appeal
UN News, June 5, 2026

Israel-Lebanon conflict continues following latest ceasefire agreement
China Global TN, June 5, 2026

Hopes of Lebanon Cease-fire Falter as Israel and Hezbollah Fight
Euan Ward, The New York Times, June 5, 2026

Overnight Israeli airstrikes kill at least 11, including 7 in Sour
L’Orient Today, June 5, 2026

IDF Chief Condemns Far-right MK’s Visit to West Bank Religious Site Due to Diversion of Troops
Yaniv Kubovich, June 5, 2026

Palestinians call on Trump to stop Israeli annexation
AFP, L’Orient Today, June 5, 2026

Hamas says won’t surrender arms but only police will carry weapons in Gaza
Mohammad Mansour, Al Jazeera, June 5, 2026

How a shortage of gas, engine oil and spare parts is grinding Gaza to a halt
Seham Tantesh, The Guardian, June 5, 2026

Haredi rioters clash with police in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh
Israel National News, June 5, 2026

We are all sick to death of war
Ella Ben Emanuel, The Times of Israel, June 4, 2026

Europe condemns Israel while arms makers buy billions in Israeli weapons
Amine Ayoub, The Jerusalem Post, June 4, 2026

EU to allocate 100 mln euros to Lebanese army for truce with Israel — foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas
TASS Russian News Agency, June 4, 2026

Israel to continue operations in Lebanon for now despite ceasefire, defense minister says
Al Arabiya, June 4, 2026

Lebanon: Another peacekeeper dies in new attack
UN News, June 4, 2026

More Mass Displacement: Israel’s Plan to Deepen Gaza Occupation
Jack Khoury, Haaretz, June 4, 2026

Israeli strikes kill 11 people in Gaza City, medics say
Wyre Davies, Rushdi Abualouf, BBC, June 4, 2026

Israeli strikes kill at least 8 in Gaza – civil defence
The Jordan Times, June 4, 2026

Türkiye condemns Israeli approval of new settlements in occupied West Bank
Hurriyet Daily News, June 4, 2026

Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Riot Against Military Draft Outside Judge’s Home
Isabel Kirshner, The New York Times, June 4, 2026

Knesset passes law granting tax benefits to dozens of West Bank settlements
Ariela Karmel, The Times of Israel, June 4, 2026

Far-right MK Tzvi Succot Attempts to Break Into Arab Israeli School With Disc Saw
Noa Shpigel, Haaretz, June 4, 2026

From food lines in Somalia to clinics in Afghanistan, Hormuz crisis sends shockwaves through global aid networks
Vibhu Mishra, UN News, June 4, 2026

After Gaza, Israel Is Now Causing the West Bank Health System to Collapse
Amira Hass, Haaretz, June 3, 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

A nation in distress, a system of prescriptions: Israelis are drowning in pills
Or Hadar, YNet News, June 3, 2026

In the Christian area of Sour, a microcosm of war-torn Lebanon
Caroline Hayek, L’Orient Today, June 3, 2026

Over 2,100 West Bank settlement housing units advance in planning process
The Times of Israel, June 3, 2026

House Votes to Rein In Trump on Iran War, in a Bipartisan Rebuke
Robert Jimison, Megan Mineiro, The New York Times, June 3, 2026

Trump Confirms He Called Netanyahu ‘Fucking Crazy’ in Heated Call Over Lebanon Fighting
Reuters, Haaretz, June 3, 2026

Gaza’s public servants systematically targeted in Israeli strikes
UN News, June 3, 2026

There are supposed to be ceasefires across the Middle East, but the fighting is worsening
Sam Metz, AP News, June 2, 2026

Clashes continue in Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting US partial ceasefire plan
Jaroslav Lukiv, BBC, June 2, 2026

Cease-fire in Beirut, war in south Lebanon: Inside the murky deal announced by Trump
Mounir Rabih, L’Orient Today, June 2, 2026

Trump said to yell at Netanyahu: ‘You’re f**king crazy. You’d be in prison if not for me’
Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg, The Times of Israel, June 2, 2026

Israeli strikes continue in southern Lebanon despite Trump’s cease-fire announcement
Justine Baer, Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah Abdallah, L’Orient Today, June 2, 2026

‘Nothing can justify’ prolonged Israeli occupation in Lebanon: France FM
Al Arabiya, June 2, 2026

Trump lashed out at Netanyahu over Lebanon: ‘You’d be in prison if not for me’
YNet News, June 2, 2026

Trump Has Failed as Commander in Chief
Thomas Friedman, The New York Times, June 2, 2026

Bowen: Trump needs this war to end but Iran is not backing down
Jeremy Bowen, BBC, June 2, 2026

UN Security Council holds emergency meeting on escalating Lebanon conflict
China Global TN, June 2, 2026

‘Women and girls cannot wait’: Lebanon’s crisis is putting lives at risk
UN News, June 2, 2026

France bans Israel from defense exhibition, limits Israeli companies to showing defensive weapons
Yonah Jeremy Bob, The Jerusalem Post, June 1, 2026

Security Council Members Call for Israel to Withdraw From Southern Lebanon
Farnaz Fassihi, The New York Times, June 1, 2026

Security Council LIVE: Emergency meeting on Lebanon as Israeli attacks casts pall over Iran-US negotiations
UN News, June 1, 2026

Mossad’s hidden army in Iran: civilians trained in Israel deliver the opening blow
Ron Ben-Yishai, YNet News, June 1, 2026

Iran attacks damage 20 US military sites since start of war, satellite images show
Merlyn Thomas, Alex Murray, Matt Murphy, BBC, June 1, 2026

Lebanon: Families flee Beirut as Israel threatens renewed strikes on Hezbollah
UN News, June 1, 2026

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Téhéran, 9 millions d’habitants, sous les bombes.

Les mass media projettent une reprise prochaine des bombardements.

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Le prix du carburant au plus bas depuis trois ans, mais plus pour très longtemps

Lettre de Liaison 146

8 mai 2026

Contre la gendarmerie planétaire – encore

NON AUX GUERRES SANS FIN NI SENS COMMUN !

Ce que nous fait la guerre, à nous qui vivons ici, loin des fronts :
D’abord, le carburant a augmenté comme jamais aux pompes, on est à deux euros le litre maintenant. Un plein, c’est un trou de cent euros dans le budget. Si vous vivez en ville, et pouvez vous servir du bus ou du tram pour vos déplacements, c’est sans importance. Si vous êtes loin des grandes villes, petit artisan, ou contraint de vous transporter pour travailler, faire des courses, c’est une nouvelle forme de confinement qui s’impose – on limite autant que l’on peut toute sortie, on évite de se déplacer. Ambiance de couvre-feu en plein jour.

Pour tous, dans les villes comme dans les campagnes, cette hausse des carburants se répercute sur toutes les marchandises transportées. Les prix ne cessent de grimper, de tous côtés. Dans le bâtiment, les matériaux ont pris 5% par mois depuis février, en moyenne. Les métaux, zinc, alu… davantage. Le PVC, lui, a pris 25%. Allez chez n’importe quel marchand de matériaux, ils vous renseigneront. On n’en voit pas la fin.

Plus en profondeur, l’état de guerre continu c’est ce que nous vivons depuis le début 2026, depuis les bombardements sur l’Iran et le Liban. Comme un couvercle sans fin qui recouvre tout l’horizon, lourd d’incertitudes et d’une sourde angoisse refoulée, qui revient par tous les canaux médiatiques, réseaux sociaux, radios, télés.

Nous sommes le 8 mai. On nous dit que c’est un jour de victoire sur le mal absolu de la seconde guerre mondiale, mais ni les allemands, ni les espagnols, ni les anglais, ni les belges ne le célèbrent. Et les media ne parlent que de guerre, de blocus, de conséquences. Les Américains, les Israéliens, toujours, contre l’Iran, le Liban, interminablement… En janvier, le Vénézuela. Depuis, menaces sur Cuba… On perd le fil à force. Les raisons ?

Basta Ya ! Assez de guerre !

Le point de non-retour est atteint. N’y a-t-il que le Pape Léon XIV pour clamer en place publique « “Assez de l’idolâtrie du moi et de l’argent ! Assez des démonstrations de force ! Assez de guerre ! La véritable force se manifeste en servant la vie.” ?
S’il n’y a que lui pour parler clair, alors autant nous faire papistes !
C’est le silence qui nous assourdit. Toujours vivre dans le déni, dans l’ignorance de la servitude volontaire ?

Que devient la joie de vivre, le goût de vivre, s’il n’est question que du tiroir-caisse, et des mêmes limites, des mêmes œillères ? A l’intérieur de petites boîtes, toutes pareilles entre elles… Enfumés que nous sommes de toutes parts, à ne plus savoir de quoi vraiment parler encore. Des performances du PSG Qatar face au Bayern de Munich ?

Atahualpa Yupanqui: viajero, militante y artista - Infobae

Résonne la guitare douce, parfois rageuse d’un fils incroyant du Pays Basque et des Indiens Quechuas, Atahualpa Yupanqui :
https://genius.com/Atahualpa-yupanqui-basta-ya-lyrics

Qui a gagné la guerre
dans les montagnes du Viet-Nam ?
Le guérillero sur sa terre
et le yankee au cinéma
Basta Ya !
Assez des commandements du yankee !

Le Pape Léon XIV, lui, nous rappelle que « la mission de l’Eglise est de proclamer l’Evangile, de prêcher la paix – si quelqu’un veut me critiquer pour mon témoignage de l’Evangile, qu’il le fasse en vérité. »

Atahualpa Yupanqui ? En quechua : Celui qui est venu de terres lointaines pour dire quelque chose.

Un si proche Orient, à nos portes la honte

Six voyages en 2024-2025 à Jérusalem, Naplouse cœur de la Palestine, Nir Oz aux portes de Gaza, grâce à celles et ceux qui lisent ces Lettres de Liaison, mais aucun en 2026 : avec l’extension de la guerre en Iran et au Liban, Israël est devenu un pays pariah, un pays piégé. Les compagnies aériennes ont supprimé des milliers de vols. Nul ne sait de quoi « demain » peut être fait. Sur le seuil d’Israël, plus de deux millions de personnes survivent sur des champs de ruines, dans des conditions qui font honte à l’humanité. Leurs cris nous parviennent, assourdis par le tintamarre des media dominants, d’une guerre qui chasse l’autre :

« Je dois dire que la guerre continue et chaque jour les ennemis de l’humanité tuent, assassinent, et nous affament. Très peu d’aide nous parvient, ce qui augmente le coût de tout, surtout des légumes, des aliments de base. Pour acheter du pain, il nous faut faire la queue pendant quatre heures le matin très tôt, dès l’aube. »

https://messageriesdelapaix.org/index.php/category/francais/echos-de-nir-oz-gaza/echoes-from-nir-oz-gaza

Quoi faire ?

Vivre dans la surdité volontaire n’est pas une option. Devenir sourd-muet, et aveugle, par choix, et que le dégoût l’emporte, par « facilité » ? Autant dire s’enfermer de soi-même dans une cage, choisir d’être paraplégique, conscience paralysée, absente – parmi les conséquences de la paraplégie : problèmes visuels, pertes de contrôle musculaire, surdité, déficit cognitif…

Nous avions fini l’année 2025 sur une note d’espoir, restés solidaires de ces familles coïncées dans des monceaux de décombres, que nous soutenons depuis 2024.

« Très cher ami. Des millions de mercis et d’appréciations pour ton aide et ton soutien. Tu nous encourages à sourire et à vivre, en vérité tu guéris nos plaies et tu allèges nos souffrances.
Nous avons quitté Deir Albalah et nous venons juste de retourner à Gaza, pour y vivre sur les gravats. Essayer de nous adapter à nos nouvelles circonstances. La guerre n’est pas finie encore. C’est une sorte de mort lente due aux déplacements forcés, aux tueries, et aux bombardements. »

Le risque, depuis cette année 2026, c’est que le dégoût nous prenne, comme jamais, de toutes ces histoires qui tournent autour du vieux rapport entre les juifs d’Israël et leurs voisins arabes. Un dégoût à la hauteur d’une répugnance insurmontable – un ami chirurgien parlait d’anaphylaxie, le concernant : une réaction allergique exacerbée, violente. Puisque le couple américano-israélien s’est engagé dans une dynamique de guerre perpétuelle.

Alors, nous retomberions dans une apathie générale comparable à ce qui s’est répandu en Europe entre 1939 et 1945. Ne plus lire la presse, ne plus rien écouter ou entendre, puisque les mass media portent bien leur nom, aux ordres des grands groupes industriels producteurs d’armements, ingénieurs en guerres permanentes pour l’écoulement des stocks. Ne plus lire la presse, les hebdos, les quotidiens, est en effet d’assez bonne politique. Comme se désintoxiquer d’une dépendance au tabac ou aux alcools.

Ne rien savoir. Ne rien vouloir connaître. Emigrer sur une île aux antipodes. Partir vivre en altitude, le plus haut possible. C’est une voie de secours, alternative ultime. Nous n’en sommes pas là. Tant que des témoins bénévoles font pour nous le long chemin qui va des zones de séisme à notre conscience assoupie.

Se reprendre. D’abord comprendre. Sapere aude, oser savoir.

Et si les media locaux ne nous informent plus, chercher l’information dans la langue universelle, l’anglaise, par d’autres canaux. Ils ne manquent pas. Si l’on veut avoir une idée à peu près équilibrée des problèmes du Proche-Orient, une demi-douzaine de possibilités s’offrent à nous. Les bulletins gratuits de United Nations News. Le Guardian britannique. Le New York Times. L’Orient Le Jour libanais. Haaretz israélien. Le Tehran Times iranien (qui a reparu en ligne)…

Chaque jour, à ce poste d’observation, nous scannons une quinzaine de media, en provenance d’une douzaine de pays (Royaume Uni, Etats-Unis, Russie, Arabie Saoudite, Chine, Iran, Israël, Egypte, Jordanie…). Action-Réaction : le site des Messageries en ligne est fréquenté quotidiennement, par près de 60% de visiteurs d’Asie (Chine, Singapour, Viet-Nam), plus de 20% d’Amérique du Nord, 6% de France, 2% d’Allemagne, du Pays-Bas, d’Irlande, de Suède, suivis par la Russie, l’Autriche. Nous sommes au monde…

https://messageriesdelapaix.org/index.php/2026/05/01/media-may-2026/

Quel est le problème avec l’Iran ?

Comme il est impossible de se fier à une ou deux sources d’information au débit idéologique restreint, comment comprendre les raisons de cet ancien conflit qui implique l’Iran ? La moindre des choses serait de consulter les témoignages de reporters étrangers à l’Iran, qui ont fait le voyage. Multiplier les angles des témoignages.

Puisqu’il s’agit de la confrontation entre les juifs d’Israël et les musulmans de la République Islamique d’Iran, il est un fait que bien peu connaissent :

Dix mille juifs vivent en Iran. Soit quatre fois plus qu’au Maroc – que l’on croyait le pays islamique le plus favorable aux juifs. On y compte une trentaine de synagogues, des écoles religieuses juives, des restaurants et magasins kasher. Même un hôpital, l’Hôpital juif du Dr Sapir, où la majorité du personnel et des patients sont musulmans. Ils ont aussi leur journal.

Que l’on sache, ces écoles, magasins kasher, en Iran, n’ont jamais subi les attentats antisémites de l’école Ozar-Hatorah à Toulouse en 2012, du musée juif de Bruxelles en 2014, de l’Hyper Cacher à Paris en 2015. Pourquoi ces faits sont-ils occultés ?

La seule destruction, totale, de synagogue en Iran est survenue au centre de Téhéran. Rafi’-Nia, le 7 avril 2026. La photo ci-dessous a bien été prise à Téhéran, non à Gaza. Les rouleaux de la Torah se sont retrouvés réduits en morceaux, sous les décombres, comme les Corans dans les mosquées de Gaza. Destruction opérée depuis le ciel, par des chasseurs-bombardiers américains, pilotés par des Israéliens.

De l’utilité de lire l’anglais, et d’aller chercher l’info ailleurs qu’au coin de sa rue…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/tehran-embattled-jewish-community-israeli-bombing-synagogue

L’armée de l’air israélienne parle de « dommages colatéraux ». Les vingt mille enfants massacrés dans la Bande de Gaza, trente mille estropiés, en deux ans, nous ont-ils accoutumés à l’horreur, nous ont-ils déshumanisés à ce point ?

Pour la clarté, dans notre dernière Lettre de Liaison en français, il y eut ce rappel d’une prise de position publique de Claude Lanzmann contre la gendarmerie planétaire, en 2011, à propos de l’intervention armée franco-britannique, appuyée par les américains, qui a détruit la Libye. Que nous ayons besoin de gendarmes pour vivre en paix ne fait pas problème.

Ce qui fait problème, c’est le cas du gendarme tueur en série, du-pompier pyromane.

ByPeace lines

Media May 2026

Former commander of Beaufort Ridge warns against romanticizing operation, holding outpost
Amir Bohbot, The Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2026

The Deeper Israel Pushes Into Lebanon, the More It Becomes Like It
Daniel Gouri de Lima, Haaretz, May 31, 2026

Israel says planted flag on medieval Beaufort Castle, near Nabatieh
AFP, L’Orient Today, May 31, 2026

As Hezbollah fires rockets at north, Katz says IDF to remain at Lebanon’s key Beaufort Castle
The Times of Israel, May 30, 2026

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

‘Cuba will fight if we must fight’
Mona Hojat Ansari, The Tehran Times, May 30, 2026

Lebanon PM denounces Israeli campaign as fresh strikes hit south
Al Arabiya, May 30, 2026

Israel kills 15 children in Lebanon in last 7 days, UNICEF calls figure ‘staggering’
AFP, L’Orient Today, May 29, 2026

On average 11 children killed or injured every 24 hours in past week in Lebanon: UN
Al Arabiya, May 29, 2026

UN Secretary-General Report Accuses Israeli Forces of Rape, Sexual Abuse of Palestinian Detainees
Liza Rozovsky, Haaretz, May 29, 2026

Residents issue plea to Lebanese government to save historic city of Sour and rest of Lebanon from further Israeli attacks
L’Orient Today, May 29, 2026

Netanyahu orders army to take control of 70 percent of Gaza Strip
Hurriyet Daily News, May 29, 2026

Displacement, hunger push some desperate families in Gaza to marry off their children
Toqa Ezzidin, Wafaa Shurafa, The Times of Israel, May 29, 2026

Gaza: 26 killed over Eid holiday, UN rights investigators report
UN News, May 29, 2026

Iran calls for inclusive global governance
The Tehran Times, May 29, 2026

In south Lebanon, Israel’s bombardment threatens Beaufort Castle
May Makarem, L’Orient Today, May 29, 2026

Defiance will define the world order
Dr Jin Liangxiang, The Tehran Times, May 29, 2026

EU sanctions seven Israeli settlers and organizations, citing violence against Palestinians and settlement expansion
AFP, L’Orient Today, May 29, 2026

Geopolitics over supply: Why Iran-US talks now drive global oil prices
The Tehran Times, May 29, 2026

The monster on the mountain: Beaufort’s bloody past and the question of returning
Nina Fox, YNet News, May 28, 2026

Diaries from Gaza: ‘It’s painful to watch the situation in Gaza worsen with each Eid that passes’
Noor Alyacoubi, L’Orient Today, May 28, 2026

Eid al-Adha in Gaza Is Shrouded in Despair Amid Hamas’ Faltering Cease-fire With Israel
Haaretz, May 28, 2026

Prices in the U.S. Are Rising at the Fastest Pace in Years
Colby Smith, The New York Times, May 28, 2026

Israel Is Caught in a Trap of Its Own Making: Another Unnecessary Forever War
Uri Misgav, Haaretz, May 28, 2026

Oil Prices Climb on Renewed Hostilities in Middle East
The New York Times, May 28, 2026

Israel hits Beirut’s southern suburbs ‘in targeted strike’
L’Orient Today, May 28, 2026

IDF strikes Beirut for first time in 3 weeks, as offensive in Lebanon intensifies
Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, May 28, 2026

Pope tells Aoun: ‘Let’s mobilize all our energies in service of peace, common good’
L’Orient Today, May 28, 2026

In Apartheid Israel, Not All Holidays Are Created Equal
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, May 28, 2026

Netanyahu says ordered Israeli army to take 70% of Gaza Strip
L’Orient Today, May 28, 2026

Yuval Noah Harari to NYT: ‘On Oct. 7, Hamas secured a stunning, humiliating military victory over IDF’
Daniel Edelson, YNet News, May 27, 2026

IDF Orders Evacuation of Tyre, Largest City in Lebanon After Beirut
Rawan Suleiman, Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, May 27, 2026

US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says
Julian Borger, The Guardian, May 27, 2026

Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010916807/yuval-noah-harari-on-the-mistake-strongmen-keep-making.html
Ezra Klein, The New York Times, May 26, 2026

Man killed in car blast in Afula, woman found dead in Haifa as crime wave sweeps Israel
Charlie Summers, The Times of Israel, May 26, 2026

Wars and geopolitical divisions constitute ‘dangerous erosion’ of world order, warns UN chief
Vibhu Mishra, UN News, May 26, 2026

Airstrikes and evacuation orders in Lebanon, aid restrictions in Gaza
UN News, May 26, 2026

China urges ‘parties concerned’ to observe ceasefire after US strikes on Iran
Al Arabiya, May 26, 2026

US strikes missile launch sites, boats in southern Iran — Fox News, citing CENTCOM
TASS Russian News Agency, May 26, 2026

“Allahu Akbar” is weapon of Islamic Ummah to undermine tyranny, defeat Zionism: Leader’s speec h
The Tehran Times, May 26, 2026

Dead animals, tetanus and rabies: IDF soldiers stationed in Gaza face extreme conditions – report
The Jerusalem Post, May 25, 2026

If Ben-Gvir Doesn’t Represent Israel, Who Does?
The Death Penalty Bill Illustrates How the Kahanist Revolution Took Over Israeli Society
Ahmad Tibi, Haaretz, May 25, 2026

IDF to step up arresting haredi draft dodgers, requests police’s support in operation – report
Mirian Sela-Eitam, The Jerusalem Post, May 25, 2026

Saudi position on Palestinian issue remains unchanged: Source
Al Arabiya, May 25, 2026

Why ICC going after Smotrich is a bigger deal than going after Netanyahu – analysis
Yonah Jeremy Bob, The Jerusalem Post, May 25, 2026

Israel significantly expands its control over Gaza since ceasefire began — newspaper
TASS Russian News Agency, May 25, 2026

Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Mapped Using Digital Archive of Wartime Footage
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, May 24, 2026

West Bank, Gaza antiquities bill breaks Israel’s international obligations – legal official
Rossella Tercatin, The Times of Israel, May 24, 2026

US expects Iran to approve peace agreement within several days — media
TASS Russian News Agency, May 24, 2026

Herzog slams ‘brutish’ settler violence, appears to pan Ben Gvir over prisoner abuse
The Times of Israel, May 24, 2026

Spain rejects the war against Iran: Legality and strategic autonomy
Xavier Villar, The Tehran Times, May 24, 2026

What Good Are 613 Commandments If We Fail the One?
Richard Diamond, The Times of Israel, May 23, 2026

Group of deaf Israeli civilians rescued from heart of Nablus in unusual West Bank incident
Tobias Siegal, The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2026

The quiet home front: The loneliness and love of Israel’s husbands at war
Mathilda Heller, The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2026

‘When You Have Rape Survivors, You Can’t Look Away’: NYT, Kristoff Defend Column on Sexual Assault of Palestinians
Haaretz, May 22, 2026

Freed Gaza flotilla activists allege Israeli abuse including rape
Al Arabiya, May 22, 2026

Freed Gaza Flotilla Activists Report Sexual Abuse, Rape in Israeli Custody
Reuters, Haaretz, May 22, 2026

Freed Gaza flotilla activists allege Israeli abuse including rape; Israel denies claims
Reuters, The Times of Israel, May 22, 2026

‘We Were Like Animals’: Gaza Flotilla Activists Detail Arrest by Israel
Nir Hasson, Haaretz, May 22, 2026

The flotilla, Ben Gvir, and the crossroads of Israeli hypocrisies
Clara Hage, L’Orient Today, May 22, 2026

Over 2,400 sexual assault complaints filed in IDF in 2025, military reports
The Jerusalem Post, May 22, 2026

Report: 42 US aircraft lost or damaged in Iran war
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, May 22, 2026

China’s UN envoy calls for full Gaza ceasefire implementation
China Global TN, May 22, 2026

Gaza: Life-saving medicines blocked as killing continues, disease gains ground
UN News, May 22, 2026

Over 880 Palestinians killed in Gaza Strip as result of ceasefire violations by Israel
TASS Russian News Agency, May 22, 2026

15-point Gaza roadmap unveiled at UN, sparking clash over Hamas disarmament
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, May 22, 2026

Italy, France, UK and Germany demand Israel halt West Bank construction, prosecute violent soldiers, settlers
Agencies, The Times of Israel, May 22, 2026

In France, pro-Palestinian solidarity is being silenced and criminalised
The Guardian, May 22, 2026

Gaza flotilla activist blasts Israel over treatment
Hurriyet Daily News, May 22, 2026

Israel needs more than another assassination
Prof. Guy Hochman, YNet News, May 22, 2026

Global outrage grows after Israeli minister taunts Gaza flotilla activists
China Global TN, May 21, 2026

Board of Peace envoy decries Ben-Gvir footage taunting flotilla activists
Liza Rozovsky, Haaretz, May 21, 2026

Amid Ben Gvir furor, Israel deports all 430 foreign flotilla activists, holds one Israeli
Nava Freiberg, Agencies, The Times of Israel, May 21, 2026

Israel’s arrogance is becoming the evidence in the case against it
Mohamad Elmasry, Al Jazeera, May 21, 2026

Gov’t approves 250m. NIS plan to preserve West Bank heritage sites ahead of Six-Day War anniversary
Miriam Sela-Eitam, The Jerusalem Post, May 21, 2026

Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors debate future of Gaza amid stalled progress on lasting peace
UN News, May 21, 2026

Putin, Xi discussed Iranian conflict settlement during tea-drink ceremony — Kremlin
TASS Russian News Agency, May 21, 2026

Experts: China, Russia seek deeper cooperation, better global governance
China Global TN, May 21, 2026

Your Questions About Nicholas Kristof’s Column on Palestinians and Sexual Assault
The New York Times, May 21, 2026

Ben Gvir posts video of himself taunting bound and detained Gaza flotilla activists, sparks global outcry
Nava Freiberg, Agencies, The Times of Israel, May 20, 2026

Interfaith peace march in Jerusalem counters rising violence and division
National Catholic Reporter, May 20, 2026

Jordan condemns ‘repeated’ storming of Al Aqsa by Israeli extremists, urges ‘firm’ int’l action
The Jordan Times, May 20, 2026

China-Russia relations reach new heights as Xi, Putin meet in Beijing
China Global TN, May 20, 2026

Egypt says Israel cannot achieve lasting peace without Palestinian statehood
Amr Mohamed Kandil, Egypt Today; May 20, 2026

Shot for throwing stones- Israeli forces killing West Bank teens weekly
AFP, The Jordan Times, May 20, 2026

Irish foreign minister slams treatment of detainees by Israel
https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/2057046925417824697
Daniel Logan, BBC, May 20, 2026

Netanyahu needs to fire Ben Gvir after his flotilla provocation, but of course he won’t
David Horowitz, The Times of Israel, May 20, 2026

Israeli minister posts video showing detained flotilla activists bound, forced to kneel
Al Arabiya, May 20, 2026

The Numbers Behind the ‘Sacred Work’ of Cleansing West Bank Palestinians for Future Jewish Villas
Amira Hass, Haaretz, May 20, 2026

Persian Gulf war raises risk of environmental disaster
The Tehran Times, May 20, 2026

Egypt-Israel relationship ‘affected’ by aggressive Israeli regional policies: Cairo
Amr Mohamed Kandil, Egypt Today; May 20, 2026

Guterres condemns Israeli move to militarise seized compound in occupied East Jerusalem
UN News, May 20, 2026

Has the world forgotten Gaza amidst the smoke of war with Iran?
Hasan Dajah, The Jordan Times, May 20, 2026

Life in Gaza after the “Yellow Line”
Wesam Bahrani, The Tehran Times, May 20, 2026

Why Is Israel So Scared of Small Civilian Sailboats Bound for Gaza?
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, May 19, 2026

IDF completes takeover of Gaza-bound flotilla
Itamar Eichner, Elisha Ben Kimon, YNet News, May 19, 2026

Sumud activists demand safe passage, accountability amid Israel’s illegal abductions
The Tehran Times, May 19, 2026

How the Hormuz crisis keeps disrupting kitchens, ports and paychecks
Vibhu Mishra, UN News, May 19, 2026

In the West Bank, the archaeological site of Sebastia under Israeli control
Raphaëlle Rérolles, Le Monde, May 19, 2026

Strangle, Expel, Collapse: The Smotrich Doctrine for Bringing Down the Palestinian Authority
Amira Hass, Haaretz, May 18, 2026

Israel intercepts vessels from latest Global Sumud Flotilla en route to Gaza — media
TASS Russian News Agency, May 18, 2026

Land convoy sets out from Libya as part of Gaza flotilla effort
Michael Starr, The Jerusalem Post, May 17, 2026

Thousands of bodies trapped under Gaza’s rubble
Gazan families are still unable to bury dead trapped under rubble
ABC, May 17, 2026

IDF faces looming manpower gap as ultra-Orthodox draft fight stalls service extension
Sarah Ben Nun, The Jerusalem Post, May 17, 2026

ICC Prosecutor Seeks Warrants for Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, Other Israeli Officials
Liza Rozovsky, Haaretz, May 17, 2026

UN chief welcomes 45-day extension of Lebanon-Israel ceasefire
China Global TN, May 17, 2026

Beirut Fears That Israel Is Eyeing a ‘Gaza Model’ for South Lebanon – as Iran Aims to Wreck Progress, Too
Zvi Bar’el, Haaretz, May 17, 2026

Hezbollah drone strike videos show evolving tactics against Israel
Luke Unger, Adam Durbin, BBC, May 17, 2026

Despite the extension of the truce, Israel intensifies attacks on the districts of Saida, Nabatieh and Sour
AFP, L’Orient Today, May 16, 2026

Lebanon says 18 killed, 124 wounded in Israeli strikes over past day
Jack Khoury, Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, May 16, 2026

Lebanon says six killed in Israeli strike as US announces ceasefire extension
Brandon Drenon, Yang Tian, BBC, May 16, 2026

In the Palestinian Village Where a Man Was Buried Twice in a Day, Residents Are Still Stunned
Gideon Levy, Alex Levac, Haaretz, May 16, 2026

With Hamas leader gone, Gaza enters next phase: ‘Disarmament is possible’
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, May 16, 2026

Israeli military strikes add to civilian suffering in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon
UN News, May 15, 2026

Smotrich: End division of West Bank into Areas A, B and C; it all belongs to Israel
Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, The Times of Israel, May 15, 2026

His father had just been buried. Then West Bank settlers forced him to dig up the body
Wyre Davies, BBC, May 15, 2026

Lebanon PM says country has had enough ‘reckless’ wars for foreign interests
Al Arabiya, May 15, 2026

‘It started on October 7’: How war reshaped Israel’s defense-tech boom
Anna Ahronheim, The Jerusalem Post, May 15, 2026

Iran guarantees safe passage through Hormuz Strait for all vessels after end of war — MFA
TASS Russian News Agency, May 15, 2026

CGTN Poll: 71.6% say new positioning for China-US relations injects stability into the world
China Global TN, May 15, 2026

Germany’s Merz: I wouldn’t advise my children to live in US
Al Arabiya, May 15, 2026

BRICS Foreign Ministers call on Israel to withdraw troops from Lebanon
TASS Russian News Agencies, May 15, 2026

Everybody Loses in the Cynical Israeli-Palestinian Sexual Violence Competition
Dahlia Scheindlin, Haaretz, May 15, 2026

Ben-Gvir declares ownership of Temple Mount as activists clash in Jerusalem ahead of flag march
The Jerusalem Post, May 14, 2026

Israeli Teens Rampage Through Muslim Quarter in Old City, Haaretz Reporter Attacked
Linda Dayan, Nir Hasson, Haaretz, May 14, 2026

Trapped by Mobs on Jerusalem Day: Far-right Jewish Rage Didn’t Spare Journalists
Linda Dayan, Haaretz, May 14, 2026

IDF says south Lebanon strikes killed over 20 Hezbollah operatives in the past day
Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, May 14, 2026

Trump’s War Is Punishing the Poor, Starting at the Gas Pump
Jeff D Colgan, The New York Times, May 14, 2026

New Gaza-bound flotilla sets sail from Turkey: Organizer
AFP, Al Arabiya, May 14, 2026

Gaza-bound flotilla led by Mavi Marmara organizers sets sail from Turkey with 53 vessels
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, May 14, 2026

Saudi Arabia proposes non-aggression pact between Iran, Middle Eastern states — newspaper
TASS Russian News Agency, May 14, 2026

Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Mounir Rabih, L’Orient Today, May 14, 2026

How Hezbollah redefines the concept of asymmetric warfare
Wesam Bahrani, The Tehran Times, May 13, 2026

Israeli strikes on highway south of Beirut kill 8, including 2 children, Lebanon says
Emanuel Fabian, Agencies, The Times of Israel, May 13, 2026

Diesel crisis deepens as Hormuz conflict bites
The Tehran Times, May 13, 2026

Hezbollah chief: Iran-US deal is best chance to end Israeli ‘aggression’ in Lebanon
Lazar Berman, Agencies, The Times of Israel, May 12, 2026

Children shot, stabbed and pepper-sprayed in occupied West Bank
Dominika Tomaszewska-Mortimer, UN News, May 12, 2026

Iran War Chokes ‘Major Driver’ of Global Economy
Christina Lu, Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy, May 11, 2026

Why is the world watching the upcoming China-US summit?
China Global TN, May 11, 2026

The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, May 11, 2026

Deadly weekend in Lebanon, continued violence in Gaza
UN News, May 11, 2026

Israel said to have built secret base in Iraqi desert to support Iran air campaign
The Times of Israel, May 10, 2026

Putin: Russia-China interaction is most important factor in stabilizing int’l relations
China Global TN, May 10, 2026

Zamir warns Knesset that military urgently needs more soldiers amid multifront war
Stav Levaton, The Times of Israel, May 10, 2026

Middle East hostilities rapidly burn out global oil reserves — Bloomberg
TASS Russian News Agency, May 10, 2026

Israeli Settlers in the West Bank Refuse to Let Dead Palestinians Rest in Peace
Holding Palestinians’ Dead: Once Strategy, Now Retribution
Israel Continues to Hold 776 Bodies of Identified Palestinians, Other Nationals
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, May 9, 2026 / Haaretz Editorial, February 2, 2026 / Amira Hass, February 1, 2026

Settlers dig up Palestinian grave near Sha-Nur, forcing family to relocate burial
Amir Bohbot, The Jerusalem Post, May 9, 2026

Settlers force Palestinians to exhume body from West Bank grave
lior Ben Ari, YNet News, May 9, 2026

Palestinian journalist details Israeli food rations after losing 130 pounds in jail
The Times of Israel, May 9, 2026

Iran accuses US of ‘reckless military adventure’
Olivia Ireland, BBC, May 9, 2026

US consumer sentiment hits record low in May amid inflation fears
Jin Mengyuan, China Global TN, May 9, 2026

Only 150 warnings for 3,500 strikes: The myth of systematic Israeli alerts in Lebanon
Enzo Quenescourt, Gabriel Blondel, L’Orient Today, May 9, 2026

400 suspects, 1,164 prosecutors: how Israel’s October 7 trials take shape
Tova Zimuky, YNet News, May 9, 2026

Israel continues rampage of southern Lebanon, extending its deadly attacks to the Chouf
L’Orient Today, May 9, 2026

Iranian Propaganda vs. U.S. Talking Points: How We Determined the Real Damage to U.S. Military Bases
Aric Toler, Devon Lum, Natalie Reneau, Aaron Byrd, Zach Caldwell, The New York Times, May 8, 2026

Arab Sources: Diminishing U.S. Interest in Gaza Hinders Progress in Talks; Israel Tightening Its Hold on Strip
Jack Khoury, Haaretz, May 8, 2026

Lebanon war leaves families foraging for food despite ceasefire
Daniel Johnson, UN News, May 8, 2026

Deadly Israeli Strikes Erode Cease-Fire in Lebanon
Euan Ward, Abi Latif Dahir, The New York Times, May 9, 2026

Israel threatening 7 villages in south Lebanon; residents are evacuating
Ghadir Hamadi, Yara Malke, L’Orient Today, May 8, 2026

Americans hail Pope Leo XIV as ‘breath of fresh air’ one year in, as Trump clashes linger
Maya Yang, The Guardian, May 8, 2026

About 8,000 bodies remain trapped under rubble in Gaza
TASS Russian News Agency, May 8, 2026

Cuban FM says new US sanctions confirm ‘genocidal intent’
China Global TN, May 8, 2026

Vatican stresses need for peace as Rubio meets pope amid strained relations
Lorenzo Tondo, The Guardian, May 8, 2026

Gaza rebuild priced at $71 billion, with most homes and nearly all businesses destroyed
Sameer Hashmi, BBC, May 7, 2026

Iranian FM says navigation in Strait of Hormuz will return to normal if war ends permanently
Egypt Today, May 7, 2026

Iran FM visit to China highlights role of Beijing’s peace proposal
China Global TN, May 7, 2026

UNRWA faces $100m-$200m budget deficit, official warns
The Jordan Times, May 7, 2026

Israeli man charged with religious hate crime after attacking French nun in Jerusalem
Al Arabiya, May 7, 2026

Western media narrative on Iran is “deeply misleading”: British independent correspondent
Bushra Shaikh, The Tehran Times, May 6, 2026

Israel’s Financial Chokehold on the Palestinians Is the Twin of Settler Terrorism
Amira Hass, Haaretz, May 7, 2026

Gaza rebuild priced at $71 billion, with most homes and nearly all businesses destroyed
Nurit Yohanan, The Times of Israel, May 6, 2026

What I witnessed in Iran challenges dominant Western narratives: American journalist
Christopher Helali, The Tehran Times, May 6, 2026

Iranian president discusses regional peace with Iraqi, French leaders in calls
The Tehran Times, May 6, 2026

Mission is to preach peace, says Pope in response to Trump attacks
Madeline Halpert, Robert Greenall, BBC, May 5, 2026

Israel’s Military Supremacy Has Become a Trap. Regional Parity May Break the Cycle of Conflict
Hanin Majadli, Haaretz, May 5, 2026

Two million airline seats cut amid soaring jet fuel prices
Gwyn Topham, The Guardian, May 5, 2026

With World Distracted by War, Extremist Settlers Intensify Attacks in West Bank
Natan Odenheimer, David Halbfinger, Fatima AbdulKarim, The New York Times, May 4, 2026

A Child Born, a Father Dead: IDF’s West Bank Commander Says They’re Killing Like It’s ’67
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, May 4, 2026

West Bank IDF Chief Admits Unequal Rules for Shooting Palestinians and Jews, Citing ‘Societal Consequences’
Josh Breiner, Haaretz, May 4, 2026

Israel lacks troops and ammo for a prolonged war
Wesam Bahrani, The Tehran Times, May 4, 2026

Trump Faces the Complicated Reality of a Costly, Unpopular War in Iran
Zolan Kanno-Youngs, The New York Times, May 3, 2026

With sights on Iran, Israel greenlights multi-billion dollar F-15, F-35 deal
Elisha Ben Kimon, Itamar Eichner, YNet News, May 3, 2026

Top cops attend Ben Gvir’s birthday, where cakes decorated with nooses take center stage
Charlie Summers, The Times of Israel, May 3, 2026

Israel said it’s applyin g 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

Post Oct. 7 world: Israel to purchase 50 F-35s, 25 new F-15s, doubling fleet sizes
Yonah Jeremy Bob, The Jerusalem Post, May 3, 2026

Country, Interrupted: War Has Triggered Clinical Mental Illness in Millions of Israelis
Gid’on Lev, Haaretz; May 2, 2026

Cuban president slams new US sanctions as ‘genocidal blockade’
China Global TN, May 2, 2026

Gaza flotilla activists claim IDF troops ‘violently attacked’ them
Daniel Bettini, YNet News, May 1, 2026

U.S. to Reportedly Close Israel Command Center Overseeing Gaza Truce as Trump Plan Stalls, Sources Say
Reuters, Jonathan Lis, Haaretz, May 1, 2026

Artemis II astronauts underscore our shared humanity, in historic UN visit
UN News, May 1, 2026

A New Library in Gaza Rises From the Ashes of Destruction
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, April-May 2026

Plague of rats and insects provides latest challenge for war-shattered Gazans
Khaled Mohamed, UN News, April-May 2026

Gazans face hunger crisis as aid blockade nears two months
UN News, April-May 2026

Tehran’s embattled Jewish community endures despite Israeli bombing of synagogue
Mohammad Mohsenifar, Stefanie Glinsky, The Guardian, April 24, 2026

Pope Leo says he does not fear Trump, as he pushes back in feud over Iran war
The Associated Press, National Public Radio, April 13, 2026

Pope on board plane to Algeria: ‘I am not a politician, I speak of the Gospel’
Vatican News, April 13, 2026

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)

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Newsletter 145

April 2026

My love of America / Easter 2026

The view from the pool
The place is a physiotherapy pool in a remote town, on a Saturday morning before Easter. Somewhere in the depth of France. The wounded, the overweight, the suffering go there ; for relief and healing. The mood, generally, is silent and serene, restricted to small talk and descriptions of ailing. On this eve of Easter something is happening. A rare, rising sound of anger and disgust in the moist air. About « the Americans ».

« They think they’re the kings of the world, and they give hell to all ! » cries one, whereas others concur. A bomber was shot down in Iran, with a missing pilot. Giving the protesters a feeling of retribution, instant satisfaction. These people are not political. They come from all walks of life. Their common focus is to be self-centered, busy with their own pain and probability of progress.

The price of gasolene in service stations is on everybody’s mind. Fifty liters will now cost you a hundred euros ($115) if your car runs on petrol. If it does on diesel, you will lose twenty more bucks. People feel strangled, choked. Both sides of the Atlantic. « Americans struggle as gas prices surge » – although gas is twice less expensive there, at over $4 for a gallon, they still struggle, most of them. « Trump struck Iran, now farmers are paying the price » (New York Times, April 3, 2026)

This was when Artemis II was on its way to the other side of the moon, with three men aboard and a woman – three of them Americans. As of this writing, April 6, 9 pm Greenwich time, the astronauts have surpassed the record for the farthest distance traveled by human beings from Earth : 400,000 km, thus surpassing the previous record of Apollo 13 back in 1970. Humankind is supposed to stand in awe : the-farthest human beings have gone into space !

The view from the moon
« Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful ! and from up here you also look like one thing ! We’re all one people ! » exclaimed the Artemis Orion pilot, Captain Glover.

Victor Glover, fer de lance d'une nouvelle ère de l'exploration spatiale | National Geographic | National Geographic

His crew partner, astronaut Christina Koch, who holds the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, marveled about « the breathtaking aspect of seeing your home planet both lit up bright as day and also the moon glow on it at night »

Awesome, from 250,000 miles, isn’t it. « Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. » Orwell, 1984. He has no access to internet, has he. The news from the « outer world » never get into his sanitized bubble beyond the moon, do they.

The view from the ground – and from underground
It’s all there, with a click. From the Israeli media, Lebanese media, you find it with the BBC, the New York Times, Reuters, AFP…

Israel blocks Palestinians from shelters during Iran strikes

On the eve of the Artemis launch : ‘When sirens sound it feels like a heart attack’ – anxiety cases surge amid war. March 31, 2026.
– Six-story building collapses in Tel Aviv. April 1. Launching day.
– At least 23 more people killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon over past twenty-four hours. April 3.
– Five wounded after Iran fires missiles at Tel Aviv area… hits near Kirya Defense Ministry HQ. April 4.
– ‘We’re sinking deeper’, Iranians brace for infrastructure strikes. April 6
– Israel steps up attacks on Lebanon, killing dozens. April 6.
– 2,5 million children stuck at home for five weeks since outbreak of the hostilities. April 6.
– Foreign airlines extend Israel flight cancellations. April 6.
You are welcome to check by yourselves, one way or the other.

We look beautiful and amazing, like one thing, rushed to underground shelters, or confined to the ruins and rubble of Gaza, oh Captain ? When Israel, a tiny country of ten million, has become nothing less than a pariah state, more of a trap than a nation, where hundreds of thousands are rushed to shelters at all times of day and night any time the sirens shriek, where kids haven’t gone to school since March 1, and flights to and fro have been suspended sine die… When one in six million people have been forcibly displaced in Lebanon, many of their homes destroyed or doomed… When tens of millions in Iran expect electricity and water to be cut off by tomorrow morning, April 8 at dawn ?

MAGA – Make America Great Again !
So, yes, we guess, whereas the Artemis Orion spaceship is cruising around the moon, and back – is there a pilot in command on spaceship Earth ? From the standard Western point-of-view, it is supposed to be the POTUS (President of the United States), with his MAGA motto – or is it the Secretary General of the United Nations ? Is there any global authority aboard this drifting human ship of billions ? Do we have to fly up 250,000 miles to realize we’re all one ?

Up there / Down here. War after war after war. All the way from Cuba 1961 to Viet-Nam, and from Afghanistan to Iraq, from Syria to Gaza and Iran. Haven’t we learnt anything from so many failures and orchestrated devastations ? Take it back to Afghanistan. Operation Enduring Freedom. October 2001. End result ?

Remember this British prince flying an Apache helicopter over Afghanistan in 2012-2013, as a co-pilot and gunner, gunning down twenty-five men, by his own estimates, and frankly stating « The thumbstick I fired was remarkably similar to the thumbstick for the PlayStation game I’d just been playing. » ? The warnings he had received from various commanders, what was made of them ? « At times we felt the commanders were right, we were creating more Taliban. […] Afghanistan was a war of mistakes, a war of enormous collateral damage – thousands of innocents killed and maimed… » Spare, Prince Harry. From one war of mistakes to the next ?

This is not to dismiss Artemis II, or the MAGA pledge. If the POTUS felt the need to focus on making America great again in his 2024 election campaign, it is a stark reminder that America was great once, but lost it. How it lost it obviously goes back to the quagmire years of Viet-Nam, 1963-1975, the Gulf Wars and their lies, 1990-1991 / 2003-2011, and the even longer quagmire failure in Afghanistan, 2001-2021. Hence the presidential pledge, leading to the electoral victory in 2024 : « They said he will start a war, I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars ».

Remember the driving force behind this 2024 campaign : « uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense ». Time to reminisce. Step back and reminisce. Remember Ike’s stern warning about the Military-Industrial Complex, in his January 1961 State of the Union address, handling the baton to John F. Kennedy.

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address

To the moon and back | News | derrynews.com

Take it back to 1961 then. Ike for Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America.

Ike also was a moniker (I Know Everything) for Alan Shepard, the first American ever to travel into space, in May 1961 – some three weeks after Yuri Gagarin had been the first human being in space, to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 1. Al Shepard, with the Mercury Seven – Scott Carpenter the scubadiver, Gordon Cooper the pianist, John Glenn « the last American hero », Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Don Slayton : how these seven inspired awe and heartfelt love in the Western part of the world ! All the more as Alan Shepard returned into space in early 1971, and became the oldest man to walk on the moon, at the ripe age of 47 (Apollo 14).

John Glenn: Astronaut's Importance to the U.S. Space Program

As for the first American to orbit the Earth, in February 1962, John Glenn, he also returned into space, with Discovery, in 1998, aged 77 – after being a senator, for a quarter of a century, from 1974 until 1999.

So, yes, take it back to Eisenhower, who somehow kick-started the space programme, and the pioneers Glenn, Shepard, Cooper, Carpenter. From the days when America stood its ground, from Freedom 7 to Friendship 7 (Shepard’s and Glenn’s vessels).

And, if we do care to make America great again, and inspiring, lovable, remember the awful fate of simple people in Beirut, in South Lebanon, in Tel Aviv, in Dimona, in Gaza, in Haifa, in Tehran… Remember the wounded’s anger in that pool, in the middle of Nowhere, at what America may drift into.

Remember John Glenn’s address to the Congress, after his return on Earth, at the end of February 1962 : « As our knowledge of the universe in which we live increases, may God grant us the wisdom and guidance to use it wisely. »

And those of you who harbour doubts as to what God may grant or not grant, heed Ike’s advice, for what it is worth – We should take nothing for granted … Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry…:

« In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

[…] We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. »

So that our love of America may rise again, eventually.

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It has been a full year since our last Newsletter in English (eight posted otherwise). Then, the war and devastation in Gaza was still ongoing. Until the ceasefire of October 2025. Since, what has changed for people there ? Over two million of them survive in rubble in half the space they used to enjoy prior to October 2023. Who cares about the people there, the schooling of children in ruins ?

Is rushing from one war to the next helping anyone, apart from the arms manufacturers ?

‘When sirens sound, it feels like a heart attack’ Anxiety cases surge amid war. Ynet News, March 31
Six-story building collapses in Tel Aviv. Ynet News, April 1
At least 23 more people killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon over past 24 hours. L’Orient Today, Apr.3
Five wounded after Iran fires missiles at Tel Aviv area, hits near Defense Min. HQ. Haaretz, Apr. 4
‘We’re sinking deeper’ Iranians brace for infrastructure strikes. BBC, April 6
Israel steps up attacks on Lebanon killing dozens. The New York Times, April 6
2,5 million children stuck at home for 5 weeks since outbreak of hostilities, The Times of Israel, Apr 6
Foreign airlines extend Israel flight cancellations, Ynet News, April 6

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Media April 2026

175 activists arrested by Israeli forces in Gaza flotilla seizure
Liza Rozovsky, Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, April 30, 2026

Israeli forces intercept, board and threaten Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters
Greenpeace, April 30, 2026

Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla near Crete and detains 175 activists
David Gritten, BBC, April 30, 2026

Hormuz disruption deepens energy shock through vulnerable regions
UN News, April 30, 2026

Israeli Forces Seize Over 20 Gaza-bound Vessels Near Greece, Flotilla Organizers Say
Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, April 30, 2026

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei says Gulf, Strait of Hormuz taking new shape
Al Arabiya, April 30, 2026

Over two dozen global news organisations call on Israel to allow Gaza access
L’Orient Today, April 30, 2026

Israel intercepts and detains crews of Gaza aid flotilla near Crete
Lorenzo Tondo, Caitlin Cassidy, The Guardian, April 30, 2026

US seeks help to reopen Strait of Hormuz as crude prices surge
China Global TN, April 30, 2026

Oil Hits Wartime High Above $120 a Barrel as Standoff Shows No End in Sight
Gregory Schmidt, The New York Times, April 30, 2026

‘Change your course’: IDF intercepts Gaza flotilla far from Israel
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, April 29, 2026

Navy begins intercepting Gaza flotilla hundreds of miles from the Strip
Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, April 30, 2026

Pentagon Iran war cost estimates may exclude billions added from damaged US assets – CNN
Danya Saperstein, The Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2026

Israel prepares to stop 100-boat Gaza flotilla before it reaches shore
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, April 29, 2026

European airlines face biggest crisis since COVID as Iran war drives up fuel costs
Joanna Plucinska, Alessandro Parodi, The Times of Israel, April 29, 2026

Pentagon Puts Iran War Cost at $25 Billion as Hegseth Berates Skeptics
Robert Jimison, The New York Times, April 29, 2026

Israel owes billions to domestic defense firms
Yuval Azoulay, YNet News, April 29, 2026

Israel Pushes Return of West Bank Settlement Vacated in 2005 Disengagement
Matan Golan, Haaretz, April 29, 2026

A New Library in Gaza Rises From the Ashes of Destruction
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, April 29, 2026

Rats, Fleas and Endless Queues: Inside the Daily Misery of Gaza’s Tent Camps
Amira Hass, Haaretz, April 28, 2026

Lebanese industrialists say they are strangled by war, costs, and declining Gulf exports
L’Orient Today, April 28, 2026

Haredi anti-draft rioters break into Military Police chief’s home with family inside; 25 arrested
Sam Sokol, Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, April 28, 2026

Aboul Gheit: Israeli occupation is the root cause of instability in the Middle East
Aboul Gheit, Egypt Today, April 28, 2026

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Gaza ceasefire is ‘increasingly fragile’, UN warns
UN News, April 28, 2026

The U.S. Started the War. The Rest of the World Is Feeling the Effects.
Patricia Cohen, Ben Casselman, The New York Times, April 27, 2026

‘Stain on the entire army’: IDF chief condemns soldiers’ looting in Lebanon after Haaretz report
Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, April 27, 2026

Probe Shows How IDF Failed to Reach Gaza Border Kibbutz in October 7 Attack
Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, April 27, 2026

PA leader Abbas’s loyalists win local elections, including in Gaza’s Deir al‑Balah
Agencies, Nurit Yohanan, The Times of Israel, April 27, 2026

‘People Have the Right to Be Buried’: In Gaza, Thousands of Palestinians Remain Trapped Under Rubble
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, April 27, 2026

Israel’s wars are changing sleep, diet, and exercise in alarming ways – study
Judith Siegel-Itzkovitch, The Jerusalem Post, April 26, 2026

Inside the vortex: Why Israel keeps getting dragged into the Lebanese mud
Jonathan Spyer, The Jerusalem Post, April 24, 2026

Israeli fire kills 10 in Gaza, medics say
Al Arabiya, April 24, 2026

‘Zionism Led to Genocide. It Must Disappear’: Omer Bartov’s New Book Explores Where, Exactly, Israel Went Wrong
Etan Nechin, Haaretz, April 24, 2026

Hoarding Is Driving Energy Prices Higher Everywhere
Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times, April 22, 2026

Another body recovered from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel in strikes on Sour minutes before cease-fire
L’Orient Today, April 22, 2026

The West Bank is expanding, but at what cost?
Oded Shalom, YNet News, April 20, 2026

‘Swimming Against the Tide, but Swimming’: More Israelis and Palestinians Now Choose to Grieve Together
Linda Dayan, Haaretz, April 20, 2026

‘Killing the Palestinian state idea’: Evacuated West Bank settlement Sa-Nur reestablished
Elisha Ben Kimon, YNet News, April 19, 2026

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson calls out EU on international law violation claims
Tzvi Jasper, The Jerusalem Post, April 19, 2026

Post-October 7 reality proves — Israel is not the Middle East’s Sparta
Dr Michael Milshtein, YNet News, April 19, 2026

Despite cease-fire, Israel continues strikes and destruction in south Lebanon
L’Orient Today, April 18, 2026

UNICEF ‘outraged’ by killing of Gaza water truck drivers, urges investigation
UN News, April 18, 2026

Saudi Arabia condemns attack on UNIFIL in Lebanon
Al Arabiya, April 18, 2026

UN chief strongly condemns killing of another peacekeeper in southern Lebanon
UN News, April 18, 2026

Pope says he regrets his remarks interpreted as a debate with Trump
Al Arabiya, April 18, 2026

IDF expects Hamas to enter disarmament process soon
Yonah Jeremy Bob, The Jerusalem Post, April 17, 2026

‘I Felt I Was a Monster’: IDF Soldiers Talk About the ‘Moral Injury’ – and the Silence
Tom Levinson, Haaretz, April 17, 2026

More than 38,000 women, girls killed in Gaza by end of 2025: UN
Al Arabiya, April 17, 2026

Mourning, pride, destruction: Images from 1st day of cease-fire in Lebanon
L’Orient Today, April 17, 2026

Trump and the first American Pope
Abdullah Elrebh, Al Arabiya, April 17, 2026

In the West Bank, Israeli settlers who commit crimes enjoy total impunity
Isabelle Mandraud, Le Monde, April 17, 2026

Public Condemnation of Settler Violence Hasn’t Changed Anything on the Ground
Rabbi Arik Ascherman: What I Wish for the Settler Who Attacked Me With a Knife [October 30, 2015]
Israel in Gaza: Violence and Injustice Are Not Jewish Values [September 12, 2014]
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Haaretz, April 16, 2026

Lyse Doucet in Iran: Destruction shows huge civilian cost of the war
Lyse Doucet, BBC, April 16, 2026

These wars will not bring true victory
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, The Times of Israel, April 16, 2026

Middle East conflict chokes end of supply chain as lights go out in the Pacific
Edouard de Bray, UN News, April 15, 2026

‘Diseases Are Everywhere’: Gaza’s ‘Catastrophic’ Healthcare Crisis Is Worsenin
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, April 14, 2026

As Iran War Dragged On, Israel Downed Fewer Missiles – and Cluster Missiles Wreaked Havoc
Bar Peleg, Avi Scharf, Oded Yaron, Yair Foldes, Haaretz, April 14, 2026

‘Pope says he will continue to speak out against war after Trump attack
Joshua McElwee, Reuters, April 13, 2026

I do not fear Trump, says Pope Leo after US president calls him ‘weak’
Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian, April 13, 2026

‘Clock is ticking’: Hormuz disruption raises fears of global food crisis
Vibhu Mishra, UN News, April 13, 2026

Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
William Christou, Abbas Abdel Karim, The Guardian, April 12, 2026

Gaza flotilla backed by Greenpeace falters on departure date due to storm
Michael Starr, The Jerusalem Post, April 12, 2026

Why Israelis Are Finding Little Reprieve From the Iran Cease-fire
Linda Dayan, Haaretz, April 12, 2026

Be’eri begins demolishing homes destroyed on October 7, choosing life over ruins
The Times of Israel, April 12, 2026

The Iran War Cost Israeli Airlines Millions. Summertime Flyers Will Pick Up the Tab
Yifat Reuven, Daniel Schmil, Haaretz, April 12, 2026

Police arrest 19 in ultra-Orthodox protests against IDF draft across Israel
The Jerusalem Post, April 12, 2026

Pope says ‘enough of war’ and decries ‘delusion of omnipotence’ at peace vigil
Edward Helmore, the Guardian, April 11, 2026

War on Lebanon: Latest toll stands at 2,020 killed and 6,436 injured
L’Orient Today, April 11, 2026

‘We Can Have Peace’: Anti-war Protests Across Israel Amid Iran Cease-fire
Linda Dayan, Bar Peleg, Haaretz, April 11, 2026

‘All those I loved are gone’: Emotional funerals in Saida for 13 members of the Security Forces killed by Israel
L’Orient Today, April 11, 2026

Lebanon says war death toll from Israeli strikes passes 2,000
Al Arabiya, April 11, 2026

‘Endless war’: inside an Israeli kibbutz near Lebanon’s volatile border
Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian, April 11, 2026

Americans weigh in on the Iran war, gas prices, their fears
The Jerusalem Post, April 11, 2026

‘God does not bless any conflict’: pope issues new rebuke over Iran war
Marina Dunbar, The Guardian, April 10, 2026

Organizer of Tel Aviv protest claims 10,000 people at rally, 10x the cap set by Supreme Court
Noam Lehmann, The Times of Israel, April 10, 2026

Fear and uncertainty grow in Lebanon as conflict grinds on
UN News, April 10, 2026

The five big sticking points in US-Iran talks
Paul Adams, BBC, April 10, 2026

Lebanon airstrike casualties ‘still under the rubble’ as ambulances, hospitals face new threats
Dominika Tomaszewska-Mortimer, UN News, April 10, 2026

UN condemns massive strikes in Lebanon, as concerns grow over ceasefire
UN News, April 9, 2026

Is the War Really Over? Not for the Israeli and Global Economies
David Rosenberg, Haaretz, April 9, 2026

Lebanon: Health system overwhelmed following a ‘horrific’ day of Israeli strikes
UN News, April 9, 2026

War cost against Iran and Hezbollah set to reach 65 billion shekels
Gad Lior, YNet News, April 8, 2026

Hundreds feared dead in Lebanon strikes
UN News, April 8, 2026

Hours Before News of Cease-Fire, Pope Leo XIV Issues Strong Rebuke of Trump
Ephrat Livni, The New York Times, April 7, 2026

Israel’s New Death Penalty Law Is a Warning
Talia Sasson, The New York Times, April 7, 2026

Foreign airlines extend Israel flight cancellations as Aegean suspends routes until June 26
Reuters, Iris Lifshitz-Klieger, YNet News, April 6, 2026

Iranian Missile Attack Hits Tel Aviv Area: 5 Wounded, Medics Say; at Least 20 Impact Sites Reported
Haaretz, April 6, 2026

Education minister says wartime school limitations will likely be extended
2.5 million children stuck at home for five weeks since the outbreak of hostilities
Rossella Tercatin, The Times of Israel, April 6, 2026

About 40 villages in south Lebanon ordered to evacuate as Israel kills more paramedics
L’Orient Today, April 6, 2026

Gaza hospital says clashes, Israeli strikes kill 10
L’Orient Today, April 6, 2026

Israel Steps Up Attacks on Lebanon, Killing Dozens
Amelia Nierenberg, Sarah Chaayto, The New York Times, April 6, 2026

Israel launches more deadly strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs
Al Arabiya, April 6, 2026

Red Cross chief condemns ‘deliberate threats’ against civilians in Mideast war
Al Arabiya, April 6, 2026

The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power
Robert A. Pape, The New York Times, April 6, 2026

‘We’re sinking deeper’: Iranians brace for infrastructure strikes as Trump deadline nears
Ghoncheh Habibiazad, BBC, April 6, 2026

A 12-hour drive through Iran offers glimpses of destruction, defiance and daily life
Bassem Mroue, The Times of Israel, April 6, 2026

Iran has ‘formulated response’ to Pakistani plan for end to hostilities with US
Reuters, L’Orient Today, April 6, 2026

Europe’s conduct in Iran conflict raises questions over NATO’s future
Eitan Lasri, The Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2026

‘Total loss’: Drone factory in Petah Tikva hit by Iranian missile
YNet News, April 5, 2026

Iran parliament speaker warns Trump ‘whole region going to burn’
Al Arabiya, April 5, 2026

Fears grow for 4 missing after Iran missile tears into Haifa home
YNet News, April 5, 2026

IDF unsure how many ballistic missiles accessable to Iran as 10 injured, four missing in Haifa
The Jerusalem Post, April 5, 2026

War overshadows Easter in silent Old City of Jerusalem
Maayan Hoffman, YNet News, April 5, 2026

Iran internet blackout is longest nationwide shutdown on record: Netblocks
Al Arabiya, April 5, 2026

A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank
Julian Borger, The Guardian, April 5, 2026

Iranian drone attack on US embassy in Riyadh more destructive than initially revealed – report
Shoshana Baker, The Jerusalem Post, April 4, 2026

5 Wounded After Iran Fires Missiles at Tel Aviv Area; Cluster Munition Hits Near Kirya Defense Ministry HQ ‘A Truly Enormous Explosion‘
Josh Breiner, Ido Efrati, Haaretz, April 4, 2026

Iran said restoring bombed missile bunkers within hours after being struck
The Times of Israel, April 4, 2026

Israeli Settlers Killed a Palestinian Farmer on His Own Land, in Front of His Father. Yes, Again
Gideon Levy, Alex Levac, The New York Times, April 3, 2026

At War With Iran Again, Some Israelis Fear Conflict Is Becoming Routine
Isabel Kershner, The New York Times, April 3, 2026

The Wars in Ukraine and Iran Are Stressing the West to the Brink
Joshua Leifer, Haaretz, April 3, 2026

Israel shifts strategy in Hezbollah fight as army drops disarmament goal
Elisha Ben Kimon, YNet News, April 3, 2026

US-Israel-Iran tensions escalate as regional strikes and humanitarian crisis deepen
China Global TN, April 3, 2026

What We Know About the U.S. Jets That Crashed in the Mideast
Neil Vigdor, The New York Times, April 3, 2026

US fighter jet shot down over Iran, one pilot rescued, source confirms to ‘Post’
Amichai Stein, Goldie Katz, The Jerusalem Post, April 3, 2026

US threats to ‘bomb’ Iran back fuel fear
Jan Yumul, Cui Haipei, China Daily, April 3, 2026

Israeli drone manufacturer reports ‘significant’ damage to central Israel facility after missile strike
Haaretz, April 3, 2026

At least 23 more people killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon over past 24 hours
L’Orient Today, April 3, 2026

UN force says three peacekeepers wounded in blast inside south Lebanon position
Al Arabiya, April 3, 2026

Trump Struck Iran. Now Farmers Are Paying the Price.
Bethlehem Feleke, Mark Boyer, The New York Times, April 3, 2026

Hamas invited to resume indirect talks with Israel in Cairo over coming days
Egypt Today, April 3, 2026

Guterres warns of ‘wider war’ as Middle East conflict enters second month
UN News, April 2, 2026

Civilian impact deepens as UN chief says ‘we must find a peaceful way out’ before region is engulfed by war
UN News, April 2, 2026

Iran’s two largest steel plants shut down due to air strikes, companies say
Tom Bennett, BBC, April 2, 2026

Jordan condemns Israeli violations in West Bank at Arab League emergency meeting
The Jordan Times, April 2, 2026

IDF Chief’s Response to CNN Attack Aims to Silence Criticism and Advance the Judaization of the West Bank
Amira Hass, Haaretz, April 1, 2026

Trump says he is ‘absolutely’ considering withdrawing US from Nato
Julian Borger, The Guardian, April 1, 2026

Trump says US may exit Iran war soon and threatens to quit NATO, as oil crisis escalates
Al Arabiya, April 1, 2026

Six-story building collapses in Tel Aviv; one injured, four apartments damaged
Maya Cohen, Lihi Gordon, YNet News, April 1, 2026

Iran, Hezbollah launch attacks as Israelis host Passover Seders, sending millions to shelters
Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, April 1, 2026

Why Did Foucault See the Iranian Revolution as Such a Pivotal Event?
Gal Hertz, Haaretz, April 1, 2026

Middle East war: Energy crunch hits vulnerable nations
Daniel Johnson, UN News, April 1, 2026

UK will not be drawn into war, will free energy bills from Russian, Iranian control, PM says – ‘This is not our war’
The Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2026

Israel’s Military Is Stretched to Breaking Point and Faces a Familiar Deadly Stalemate in Lebanon
Amos Harel, Haaretz, April 1, 2026

On Passover, former Gaza hostages say freedom ‘takes on a different meaning’ – interview
Hannah Brown, The Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2026

Artemis II astronauts describe ‘spectacular moment’ in space after leaving Earth’s orbit : ‘Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful, and from up here… you look like we’re all one people’
BBC, April 1, 2026

US gas price tops $4 for first time since 2022
Shanaz Musafer, Natalie Sherman, BBC, April 1, 2026

UN warns of rising evictions and settler violence in Occupied Palestinian Territory
UN News, April 1, 2026

‘When sirens sound, it feels like a heart attack’: anxiety cases surge amid war
Or Hadar, YNet News, March 31, 2026

UN condemns killing of two more peacekeepers in Lebanon
UN News, March 30, 2026

As the World Focuses on Iran, Lebanon Is Being Forgotten, Again
Jack Khoury, Haaretz, March 30, 2026

The image from Gaza that still haunts me: Palestine relief agency chief
Daniel Johnson, UN News, March 30, 2026

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