Warm greetings. Starvation and killing still going on. They distribute food parcels in a savage way.
Prices are incredible, especially flour and sugar. Hard times again. Shortage in everything.
Please make Dua and don’t forget us.
News from Gaza City, June 29, 2025
News from Gaza City, May 9, 2025
Sorry for late reply due to hard times conditions.
Starvation is evident everywhere.
News from Gaza City, April 24, 2025
Greetings from Gaza where the attacks are still ongoing everywhere. The siege is very tight and the crossings are closed since Second of March. They don’t allow any food or fuel supply or drugs to enter Gaza. This increases the prices for all food staff, especially flour, oil and sugar.
Very high commission when withdrawing money from money shops, almost fifty percent today.
It is undeclared starvation and famine.
We made use of pasta and made bread out of it.
We eat once a day.
U2 Statements, August 11, 2025
On Gaza
Everyone has long been horrified by what is unfolding in Gaza – but the blocking of humanitarian aid and now plans for a military takeover of Gaza City has taken the conflict into uncharted territory. We are not experts in the politics of the region, but we want our audience to know where we each stand.
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Bono on Gaza
Apart from the attack on the Nova music festival on October 7th, which felt like it happened while U2 were on stage at Sphere Las Vegas, I have generally tried to stay out of the politics of the Middle East… this was not humility, more uncertainty in the face of obvious complexity… I have over recent months written about the war in Gaza in The Atlantic and spoken about it in The Observer, but I circled the subject.
As a cofounder of the ONE Campaign, which tackles AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa, I felt my experience should be on the catastrophes facing that work and that part of the world. The hemorrhaging of human life in Sudan or Ethiopia hardly makes the news. Sudan alone is beyond comprehension, with a civil war that has left 150,000 dead and 2 million people facing famine.[1]
And that was before the dismantling of USAID in March and gutting of PEPFAR, life-saving programs for the poorest of the poor that ONE has fought for decades to protect… the cuts to which will likely lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children over the next few years.[2]
But but but… there is no hierarchy to such things.
The images of starving children on the Gaza Strip brought me back to a working trip to a food station in Ethiopia my wife Ali and I made 40 years ago next month following U2’s participation in Live Aid 1985. Another man-made famine.
To witness chronic malnutrition up close would make it personal for any family, especially as it affects children.Because when the loss of non-combatant life en masse appears so calculated… especially the deaths of children, then ‘evil’ is not a hyperbolic adjective… in the sacred text of Jew, Christian, and Muslim it is an evil that must be resisted.
The rape, murder, and abduction of Israelis at the Nova music festival was evil.
On that awful Saturday night/Sunday morning of October 7/8 2023, I wasn’t thinking about politics. On stage in the Nevada desert, I just couldn’t help but express the pain everyone in the room was feeling and is still feeling for other music lovers and fans like us — hiding under a stage in Kibbutz Re’im then butchered to set a diabolical trap for Israel and to get a war going that might just redraw the map from ‘The river to the sea’… a gamble Hamas’ leadership were willing to play with the lives of two million Palestinians… to sow the seeds for a global intifada that U2 had glimpsed at work in Paris during the Bataclan attack in 2015… but only if Israel’s leaders fell for this trap that Hamas set for them.
Yahya Sinwar didn’t mind if he lost the battle or even the war if he could destroy Israel as a moral as well as an economic force. Over the next months as Israel’s revenge for the Hamas attack appeared more and more disproportionate and disinterested in the equally innocent civilian lives in Gaza… I felt as nauseous as everyone, but reminded myself Hamas had deliberately positioned themselves under civilian targets, having tunneled their way from school to mosque to hospital. When did a just war to defend the country turn into an unjust land grab? I hoped Israel would return to reason. I was making excuses for a people seared and shaped by the experience of Holocaust… who understood the threat of extermination is not simply a fear but a fact… I re-read Hamas’ charter of 1988[3]… it’s an evil read (Article Seven!)
But I also understood that Hamas are not the Palestinian people… a people who have for decades endured and continue to endure marginalization, oppression, occupation, and the systematic stealing of the land that is rightfully theirs. Given our own historic experience of oppression and occupation, it’s little wonder so many here in Ireland have campaigned for decades for justice for the Palestinian people.
We know Hamas are using starvation as a weapon in the war, but now so too is Israel and I feel revulsion for the moral failure. The Government of Israel is not the nation of Israel, but the Government of Israel led by Benjamin Netanyahu today deserves our categorical and unequivocal condemnation. There is no justification for the brutality he and his far right government have inflicted on the Palestinian people… in Gaza… in the West Bank. And not just since October 7, well before it too… though the level of depravity and lawlessness we are seeing now feels like uncharted territory.
Curiously those who say these reports are not true are not demanding access for journalists and seem deaf to the revealing rhetoric. Examples that sharpen my pen include: Israel’s Heritage Minister claiming that the government is racing to wipe out Gaza[4]… his Defense Minister and Security Minister arguing no aid should be let into the territory.[5],[6] “Not one grain of wheat.”[7] And now Netanyahu announces[8] a military takeover of Gaza City… which most informed commentators understand as a euphemism for the colonization of Gaza. We know the rest of the Gaza Strip… and the West Bank are next. What century are we in?
Is the world not done with this far, far right thinking? We know where it ends… world war… millenarianism… Might the world deserve to know where this once promising bright-minded democratic nation is headed unless there is a dramatic change of course? Is what was once an oasis of innovation and free-thinking now in hock to a fundamentalism as blunt as a machete? Are Israelis really ready to let Benjamin Netanyahu do to Israel what its enemies failed to achieve over the last 77 years? And disappear it from membership in a community of nations built around even a flawed decency?
As someone who has long believed in Israel’s right to exist and supported a two-state solution, I want to make clear to anyone who cares to listen our band’s condemnation of Netanyahu’s immoral actions and join all who have called for a cessation of hostilities on both sides.
If not Irish voices, please please please stop and listen to Jewish ones – from the high mindedness of Rabbi Sharon Brous, to the tearful comedy of the Grody-Patinkin family – who fear the damage to Judaism, as well as Israel’s neighbours. Listen to the more than 100,000 Israelis who this week in Tel Aviv protested for an end to the war.
Our band stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine who truly seek a path to peace and coexistence with Israel and with their rightful and legitimate demand for statehood. We stand in solidarity with the remaining hostages and plead that someone rational negotiate their release. Could it be Marwan Barghouthi who the former head of Mossad Efraim Halevy described as “probably the most sane and the most qualified person” to lead the Palestinians?[9]
Wiser heads than mine will have a view, but surely the hostages deserve a different approach — and quick.
We urge more good people in Israel to demand unfettered access by professionals to deliver the critical care needed throughout Gaza and the West Bank that they best know how to distribute… and to let the correct number of trucks through. It will take more than 100 trucks a day to take seriously the need – more like 600[10] – but the flooding of humanitarian aid will also undercut the black marketing that has been happening to benefit Hamas.
The band is pledged to contribute our support by donating to Medical Aid For Palestinians.
-Bono
[1] Sudan War, BBC, 4 July 2025
[2] USAID Cuts, The Lancet, 19 July 2025
[3] Hamas Covenant: Yale Law Library, 18 August 1988
[4] Israeli Heritage Minister Statement: The Times of Israel, 24 July 2025
[5] Israeli Security Minister Statement: Israel National News, 27 July 2025
[6] Israeli Defense Minister Statement: The Guardian, 16 April 2025
[7] Israeli Finance Minister, Grain of Wheat Statement: Ynet, 7 April 2025
[8] Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Statement: BBC, 8 August 2025
[9] Former Mossad Director Efraim Halevy Statement: France24, July 17 2025
[10] Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown – Aid Trucks Statement, BBC Radio 4 – Today, 8 August 2025
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The Edge on Gaza
We are all deeply shocked and profoundly grieved by the suffering unfolding in Gaza. What we are witnessing is not a distant tragedy—it is a test of our shared humanity.
I have three questions for Prime Minister Netanyahu. I ask them in the hope of engaging the conscience and sanity of the people of Israel.
First: Do you truly believe that such devastation—inflicted so intentionally and relentlessly on a civilian population—can happen without heaping generational shame upon those responsible? Do you not see that the longer this continues, the more Israel risks becoming isolated, mistrusted, and remembered not as a haven from persecution, but as a state that, when provoked, systematically persecuted a neighbouring civilian population?
Second: If the end goal is, as the Likud platform suggests, the removal of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank to make way for a “Greater Israel,” then that is not peace—it is dispossession; it is ethnic cleansing, and, according to many legal scholars, colonial genocide. It is an injustice on a massive scale. And injustice, as we learned in Ireland, is never the path to security: it breeds resentment, it hardens hearts, and it guarantees that future generations will inherit conflict rather than peace. The oppressed do not forget. How can this course of action possibly make your people safer?
Third: If you reject the two-state solution—as your government now openly does—then what is your political vision? Simply perpetual conflict? A future of walls, blockades, military occupation? A state of permanent inequality? And if this apartheid state transpires don’t you destroy the very argument for Israel’s existence as a moral response to the horrors of the Holocaust? For if Israel comes to be seen as a state that systematically denies another people their rights, then the world will inevitably ask whether the only just and sustainable future, the only tolerable future, is a shared state—one where Jews and Palestinians live together as equals under the law.
We know from our own experience in Ireland that peace is not made through dominance.
Peace is made when people sit down with their opponents—when they recognise the equal dignity of all, even those they once feared or despised.
There can be no peace without justice. No reconciliation without recognition. And no future unless we refuse to let the past be repeated.
The road to peace is difficult.
But it is never too late, or too early, to begin walking it.
-The Edge
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Adam on Gaza
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by Israel’s aid blockade and bombing looks like revenge on a civilian population who are not responsible for Hamas’ murderous attack on October 7. If Israel moves to colonise the Gaza Strip, it will permanently undo any possibility of lasting peace or solution for hostilities. Forgetting the morality of the situation for a moment, doesn’t the technical superiority of Israel’s modern army make a boast of its precision targeting of individuals from thousands of miles away? And if so why are the IDF bombarding a civilian population from the skies indiscriminately destroying any bit of shelter and infrastructure?
Preserving civilian life is a choice in this war.
-Adam
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Larry on Gaza
The images of the Hamas-led massacre of Israelis on October 7th and in particular the footage of innocent music fans being slaughtered, beaten and abused at the Nova Music Festival were harrowing to watch. Nothing was achieved except more misery for the region at the hands of Hamas and its allies.
So what did Hamas expect would happen when they committed mass murder and took the hostages?
Israel’s response was expected.
After those attacks the total obliteration of Hamas was called for by Israel and its allies and was expected.
A ground war was expected.
Aerial bombardment and destruction were expected .
The indiscriminate decimation of most homes and hospitals in Gaza, with a majority of those killed being women and children, was not expected.
Imposing famine was not expected.
It’s difficult to comprehend how any civilised society can think starving children is going to further any cause and be justified as an acceptable response to another horror. To state the obvious, starving innocent civilians as a weapon of war is inhumane and criminal.
Where is the outrage from within Israel, outside of a small, if increasingly vocal, minority?
Where is the outrage from the diaspora?
Beyond some reluctant and muted acknowledgement of a famine inflicted, nothing.
Silence.
The power to change this obscenity is in the hands of Israel
I undoubtedly support Israel’s right to exist and I also believe Palestinians deserve the same right and a state of their own.
Silence serves none of us.
-Larry
Lettre de Liaison 140 – 14 juillet 2025
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Lettre de Liaison 140
14 juillet 2025
Brèves Au Retour
3 juin 2025 : Ce 3 juin 2025, Torsten Wiesel, Prix Nobel de Médecine, né en 1924 à Uppsala en Suède, est entré dans sa 102ème année. Chapeau, l’Artiste ! Torsten, neurobiologiste, est membre fondateur depuis 2004 de l’IPSO, Organisation Israélo-Palestinienne pour la Science. Dès la fin 2000, Torsten soutenait notre première campagne en Israël/Palestine, avec François Jacob, Jean-Marie Lehn, l’Irlandaise Mairead Maguire, l’Anglais Rich Roberts, le Dalaï Lama, les Américains Elias Corey, Roald Hoffmann, et une vingtaine d’autres lauréats.
La clef de voûte de cet Appel de Ramallah, Jérusalem, Nazareth, était une formule d’Einstein : « La paix ne peut être maintenue par la force, elle ne peut être atteinte que par la compréhension. »
En 2005, après l’évacuation par les Israéliens de la Bande de Gaza, et de quatre colonies problématiques en Cisjordanie, il était de nouveau à nos côtés, avec encore Mairead, Rich, Elias, Jody Williams, le Dr Shirin Ebadi, l’Argentin Perez Esquivel, et une soixantaine d’autres. L’Appel des Nobel Contre la Terreur, Pour le Sens Commun, ancré dans les pensées et l’action de Martin Luther King.
En 2008-2019, il est encore là, pour notre plus longue campagne, Ouvrez les Portes, avec encore le Dr Ebadi, Mairead, Jody, Elias, Jean-Marie Lehn, Albert Fert, Perez Esquivel, John Coetzee, et soixante-dix autres (ainsi que 648 membres du parlement européen). « Israël doit mettre fin au blocus de Gaza ».
Et en 2018, il fait partie des dix-huit signataires d’une lettre à la Vice-Présidente de l’Union Européenne, avec de nouveaux soutiens : Jean-Pierre Sauvage, les Moser (de Norvège)…
Il s’agit de pousser l’Union Européenne à honorer ses engagements à la frontière entre Gaza et l’Egypte : encore, de desserrer le double étau (israélien et égyptien) sur la population de Gaza. En effet, depuis la fin 2005 les agents de l’Union Européenne en poste à Rafah ont permis le passage de près d’un demi-million de personnes (1.500 par jour), jusqu’en juin 2007. Ils ont repris brièvement leurs fonctions début 2025, jusqu’à la rupture du cessez-le-feu par Israël en mars. Depuis, comme en 2018 : silence radio de la dite Union.
Et nous voici en 2025. Torsten, peu avant son 101ème anniversaire, nous rejoint encore, et nous envoie son « plein soutien », avec quarante autres lauréats. Pour exiger la fin des opérations militaires à Gaza, et l’arrêt de la guerre avec l’Iran. D’où cet hommage, ici, qui lui est rendu. A une époque, c’était Elie Wiesel qui nous apportait son concours, pour la Bosnie, l’Algérie. Depuis l’an 2000, c’est Torsten.
Aurons-nous la force et la sagesse de parvenir à durer un siècle, vous et moi ?
Vous ne connaissiez pas Torsten Wiesel. Evidemment, les mass media ont d’autres sujets…
14 juin : Depuis la nuit du 12 au 13, le vaste Iran est bombardé par une flotte israélienne de F35 et F15 américains (Lockheed, 1ère société d’armements mondiale, Boeing 4ème), qui ne rencontre aucune résistance aérienne, aucune « DCA ». Mais les Iraniens ont leurs missiles, comme on avait vu en avril et octobre 2024, qui tombent un peu partout en Israël. Le pays est bouclé : l’aéroport est vide, tous les vols annulés durant deux semaines, tous les avions évacués. Les écoles, les synagogues sont fermées. Cela augure mal, très mal.
22 juin : Les Américains entrent dans la danse infernale, avec leurs super-bombardiers B2 (Northrop, 3ème société de ventes d’armes au monde) et leurs super-bombes GBU de treize tonnes, fabriquées conjointement par Northrop et Boeing (4ème marchand d’armes au monde). Le coût d’une de ces bombes ? Près d’un demi-milliard de dollars.
Le coût d’un bombardier B2 ? Trois milliards de dollars.
La nuit du 22 juin, Washington a envoyé sept de ces B2, équipés de deux bombes chacun. Sauf erreur, Northrop et Boeing se sont partagé près de 7 milliards de dollars en quelques heures cette nuit-là. Le « casse du siècle » à Buenos Aires, en 2006, n’avait rapporté que quinze millions de dollars à ses auteurs. Silence, on compte. On cherche à comprendre…
24 juin : L’arbitre-joueur américain siffle la fin du match, après que les Iraniens aient infligé des pertes sans précédent aux Israéliens, et envoyé leurs missiles sur la plus grande base militaire américaine au Moyen-Orient.
Encore une guerre pour rien ? Relire Orwell, 1984. « Dans une combinaison ou une autre, ces trois super-états sont en guerre permanente, et l’ont été tout ce dernier quart de siècle.[…] C’est une guerre d’objectifs limités entre combattants qui sont incapables de se détruire […] et qui ne sont pas divisés par une véritable différence idéologique. »
Précisons ce que Orwell ne disait pas : les super-états ont un intérêt matériel à la guerre.
14 juillet : « Le jour du 14 juillet, je reste dans mon lit douillet, la musique qui marche au pas, cela ne me regarde pas
Je ne fais pourtant de tort à personne, en n’écoutant pas le clairon qui sonne
Mais les brav’s gens n’aiment pas que l’on suive une autre route qu’eux » Georges Brassens
15 juillet : On nous demande souvent (journalistes, curieux) ce que nous faisons au juste au Proche-Orient. La réponse est simple, vérifiable, sur trois niveaux :
- D’abord, trouver ce qui n’est pas dans les media. Pour comprendre vraiment ce qui se passe, et le partager. Comprendre pour partager. Un philosophe hollandais banni par sa communauté, Spinoza, disait : « La plus haute activité qu’un être humain puisse atteindre c’est apprendre pour comprendre, parce que comprendre c’est être libre. » Un exemple de ce travail d’enquête sur le terrain : l’incendie par un commando israélien de la principale mosquée de Naplouse, dont les media n’ont rien dit, en mars dernier, dont nous avons rendu compte dans ces Lettres de Liaison.
Se donner les moyens : nous tenons à jour un site, peacelines.org, qui est consulté quotidiennement, pas seulement depuis la France et les Etats-Unis, mais depuis la Chine, le Japon, l’Irlande, le Royaume Uni, l’Allemagne, la Hollande, la Pologne, l’Argentine, Israël, la Palestine…- Nous avons rouvert notre compte Facebook : www.facebook.com/PeaceLines
- notre compte X (ex-Twitter) @peacelines
- et ouvert un compte Instagram : instagram.com/messageriesdelapaix
- A vous d’y aller voir, de le faire savoir, partager.
- Solidaires de ceux qui traversent les pires épreuves, nous les rejoignons là où ils sont, à Nir Oz, le kibboutz de l’enveloppe de Gaza le plus atteint par l’attaque palestinienne du 7 octobre 2023 (le quart de ses habitants massacré ou kidnappé) ; à Gaza, où avons envoyé 1340€ en 2024, pris sur le budget des Messageries – à la famille d’un professeur d’université privé comme les autres de salaire depuis deux ans. (En 2025, par manque de fonds, ce sont des dons personnels qui ont été faits).
A Naplouse, dans les Territoires palestiniens occupés, nous avons acheté un frigidaire Beko de 286 litres, pour une famille de Balata dont le réfrigérateur avait été mitraillé lors d’un raid de soldats, en février dernier.
On se souviendra que le fils cadet de cette famille, lors de ce raid, a été exécuté à bout portant dans sa chambre, au matin. A la suite de quoi, ils ont emporté le corps.
Pour une autre famille de Naplouse, nous avons acheté six chaises. Ils ont enfin pu prendre un premier repas tous ensemble, dans leur petite cuisine.
Ce sont, dans ces trois cas, des familles que nous connaissons depuis une quinzaine d’années, qui nous ont toujours donné une chaleureuse hospitalité. - Comme nous ne pouvons envisager de soutenir indéfiniment à ce niveau-là, le but premier est d’agir sur les causes de ces catastrophes. Depuis trois mois nous travaillons à une campagne de Prix Nobel pour que cesse la guerre. A Gaza, comme en Iran. Ils sont 41 signataires, à la mi-juillet – dont sept Français : les professeurs Jean-Marie Lehn, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Jules Hoffmann, Albert Fert, Alain Aspect, Anne L’Huillier, Serge Haroche, et huit Nobel de Paix : Oscar Arias Sanchez (ex-président du Costa-Rica), le Dr Shirin Ebadi (d’Iran), Tawakkol Karman (du Yémen), l’Irlandaise Mairead Maguire, l’Argentin Adolfo Perez Esquivel, l’Irakien Hussein Al-Shahristani (président de Pugwash – cf le Manifeste Einstein-Russell), l’Indien Kailash Satyarthi, l’Américaine Jody Williams (Ban the Mines).
C’est une campagne « à bas bruit » – c’est-à-dire qu’elle circule, continûment, tant parmi les scientifiques de tous pays que parmi les responsables politiques, en attendant qu’elle soit médiatisée, ce qui dépend des agences de presse nationales, donc des gouvernements… Or il y a blocage depuis mai, en Israël comme en France, aux Etats-Unis, en Angleterre. Et les Allemands restent sur la touche.
Nous sommes, à la mi-juillet, à la croisée des chemins, dans un paysage politique particulièrement enfumé, de tous côtés. Objectivement, le calvaire des Palestiniens est de plus en plus connu mondialement, et provoque une montée de haine anti-juive, d’Australie en Grèce, des pays scandinaves aux Etats-Unis. Objectivement encore, Israël-nation est à bout de souffle humainement et militairement. L’Union Européenne est aux abonnés absents, tout occupée à la gestion de ses profits en Ukraine (pratiquement 30% des ventes d’armes mondiales – en tête la France, numéro deux mondial, suivie par l’Allemagne, l’Italie, le Royaume Uni, l’Espagne, la Hollande, la Pologne, la Suède).
Source SIPRI : https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/fs_2503_at_2024_0.pdf
Le bloc Russie-Chine (moins de 14% des ventes d’armes au monde) réduit la voilure, enlisés dans le piège de l’Ukraine. Les trois-quarts des Israéliens ne veulent plus de cette guerre à Gaza, même leurs media le disent. Ce sont autant de conditions objectives qui peuvent permettre un arrêt des opérations militaires à court terme.
Pour finir ce bref tour d’horizon de notre Bassin Méditerranéen et contexte, il y a eu cinq voyages en Israël/Palestine depuis février 2024. Si vous pensez que c’est utile, ou méritoire, donnez-nous de quoi financer le suivant. Le moindre chèque, billet amicaux…
Israel halts aid pauses in famine-hit Gaza City, calls it ‘dangerous combat zone’
Amr Mohamed Kandil, Egypt Today, August 29, 2025
US says it will ban PA’s Abbas, 80 other officials from attending UN General Assembly
The Times of Israel, August 29, 2025
Israel army says Gaza City now ‘a dangerous combat zone’
Jordan Times, August 29, 2025
Israel Police Block Jerusalem Fundraiser for Gaza, Claiming It Could ‘Serve Hamas’
Nir Hasson, Josh Breiner, Haaretz, August 29, 2025
The Zionist case for Palestinian statehood
Yehuda Kurtzer, The Times of Israel, August 29, 2025
U.S. Bans Visas for Palestinian Authority, PLO Members Ahead of UN General Assembly; President Abbas Reportedly Included
Ben Samuels, Haaretz, August 29, 2025
UN human rights staff urge leadership to declare Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide
Jason Burke, The Guardian, August 29, 2025
Extraordinary aerial images show Gaza in ruins after nearly two years of war
YNet News, August 28, 2025
UN: Over 1,000 Attacks on Palestinians by Israelis in the West Bank Recorded Since January
Amira Hass, Haaretz, August 28, 2025
AP journalist’s final pics show spot where she was killed by IDF at Nasser Hospital
The Times of Israel, August 28, 2025
‘Rivers of blood’ protest outside IDF chief’s home
Roi Rubinstein, YNet News, August 28, 2025
WSJ: Egypt training hundreds of Palestinians for future Gaza security force
Haaretz, August 28, 2025
Gaza at ‘breaking point,’ UN food chief says after visit to hunger-stricken Strip
Agencies, The Times of Israel, August 28, 2025
Gaza death and destruction ‘without parallel in recent times’: Guterres
UN News, August 28, 2025
Pope demands end to ‘collective punishment’ and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza
Haaretz, August 28, 2025
Orthodox Church in Gaza City ordered to evacuate by Israeli army
Rossella Tercatin, The Times of Israel, August 27, 2025
Sick and Elderly Shelter in Gaza City Churches With Nowhere to Go Amid Looming IDF Siege
Jack Khoury, Rawan Suleiman, Haaretz, August 27, 2025
UN calls for decisive steps to end conflict as Gaza and West Bank crises deepen
UN News, August 27, 2025
IDF Raids West Bank City of Nablus; 27 Palestinians Wounded, Medics Say
Jack Khoury, Haaretz, August 27, 2025
Hamas won’t be waving a white flag anytime soon, and that’s OK with Netanyahu
Avi Issacharoff, YNet News, August 27, 2025
NGO says starving Gaza children too weak to cry
AFP, Al Arabiya, August 27, 2025
Large crowds fill Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square for rally urging deal to free captives
Charlie Summers, Ariela Karmel, The Times of Israel, August 26, 2025
Hostage’s father: ‘We understand it’s full steam ahead’ regarding IDF operations in Gaza
Linda Dayan, Haaretz, August 26, 2025
Macron urges Netanyahu to reject Gaza reoccupation and embrace Palestinian statehood
Tamar Sebok, YNet News, August 26, 2025
Residents flee as Palestinians report overnight IDF shelling of Gaza City outskirts
Reuters, Jacob Magid, Stav Levaton, The Times of Israel, August 26, 2025
Hundreds of senior diplomats call for EU to take urgent action over Gaza crisis
Tom Ambrose, Aneesa Ahmed, Hamish MacKay, The Guardian, August 26, 2025
Gaza City offensive divides Israeli military leadership
Ron Ben-Yishai, YNet News, August 26, 2025
Ex-IDF Chief Eisenkot: My Son Was Killed in Gaza Due to Netanyahu Government’s ‘Political Cowardice‘
Haaretz, August 26, 2025
Egypt condemns Israeli escalation in Ramallah, warns of regional instability
Egypt Today; August 26, 2025
Palestinians Report Dozens Wounded as IDF Troops Operate in Ramallah in Broad Daylight
Hagar Shezaf, Jack Khoury, Haaretz, August 26, 2025
Inside Gaza’s Hospitals: ‘The Children Were Very Thin. Weak. Glazed Eyes. It Was Devastating’
Haaretz, August 26, 2025
‘Gaza conquest’s madness – living matter most’: Slain Nir Oz founders’ children urge hostage deal
Lihi Gordon, YNet News, August 25, 2025
Israeli strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital kills at least 15, including journalists
Al Arabiya, August 25, 2025
Someone should have thought twice before bombing hospital in Khan Younis
Einav Schiff, YNet News, August 25, 2025
Gaza: UN calls for probe following deadly strikes on Nasser Hospital
UN News, August 25, 2025
Last Photos Taken by Gaza Journalists Before They Were Killed in Israeli Strikes
Reuters, Associated Press; Haaretz, August 25, 2025
Four journalists among 15 dead in Israeli strike on hospital, Gaza officials say
Yolande Knell, Raffi Berg, BBC, August 25, 2025
15 said killed in Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, including 4 journalists
The Times of Israel, August 25, 2025
IDF chief reportedly says there is a hostage deal ‘on the table, we need to take it’
The Times of Israel, August 25, 2025
The War in Israel Over Serving in War
Elizabeth Bumiller, Natan Odenheimer, Johnatan, Riess, The New York Times, August 24, 2025
‘Every Day, We’re Forced to Choose Who Gets Treatment’: Malnutrition Cases Outpace Gaza’s Health System
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, August 24, 2025
Driven by hunger in Gaza, amputees are part of the collateral damage
UN News, August 24, 2025
Carmel and her friends were abandoned to their deaths; we cannot abandon the others
Eshel Gat, YNet News, August 23, 2025
Palestinians despair after UN declares famine in Gaza
AFP, Iraqi News, August 23, 2025
‘Starvation Is Everywhere’: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror
Yarden Michaeli, Nir Hasson, Haaretz, August 22, 2025 [contains disturbing images of starving children]
First Person: Gaza, where starving people are trapped in a land reduced to rubble
Jonathan Dumont, UN News, January 6, 2025
Europe and Arab States Are Asleep. Soon, Anything That Moves in Gaza City Will Be Killed
Amira Hass, Haaretz, August 22, 2025
Global Monitors Confirm Famine in Part of Gaza. What Does That Mean?
Ephrat Livni, The New York Times, August 22, 2025
‘My youngest child doesn’t know what fruit tastes like’: Gaza residents on famine
Tom Bennett, BBC, August 22, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/world/middleeast/famine-gaza-city-israel.html
Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Are Officially Under Famine, Monitors Say
Vivian Yee, The New York Times, August 22, 2025
Saudi Arabia says Gaza war will ‘remain a stain’ on international community
Al Arabiya, August 22, 2025
Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief
UN News, August 22, 2025
Here’s why the UN-backed report confirms famine in Gaza after months of warnings
Al Arabiya, August 22, 2025
Middle Israel: Israel must sign deal to end Gaza war, bring hostages home
Amos Asa-El, The Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2025
Marching on the Gaza Border, Hostage Families Say: Gaza Takeover Plan Is a Death Sentence
Eden Solomon, Haaretz, August 21, 2025
5 ex-hostage lookout troops finish rehab, as captives’ relatives march to Gaza border
Diana Bletter, Jacob Magid, The Times of Israel, August 21, 2025
Amid massive destruction of Gaza City, UN chief renews ceasefire call
UN News, August 21, 2025
Israel pounds Gaza City after offensive gets green light
Iraqi News, August 21, 2025
Palestinians in Gaza rally with Egyptian flags in support of Cairo’s ceasefire proposal
Egypt Today, August 21, 2025
UN chief calls for immediate ceasefire, warns of casualties from Gaza City takeover
Agencies, Nava Freiberg, Stav Levaton, The Times of Israel, August 21, 2025
He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.
Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times, August 21, 2025
Gazans face a future of pain and prosthetics
UN News, August 21, 2025
Astronomical Costs of Occupation: Israel Set to Shoulder Economic Burden of 2 Million Gazans
Hagai Amit, Nati Tucker, Haaretz, August 21, 2025
‘Studying Torah is what protects us’: Haredi leaders lead prayers against IDF draft
Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, August 21, 2025
Most Americans believe countries should recognize Palestinian state – poll
The Jerusalem Post, August 20, 2025
‘Nowhere to Go, No Money, No Way to Survive’: Gaza City Residents Await Displacement or Death
Nagham Zbeedat, Rawan Suleiman, Haaretz, August 20, 2025
Ultra-Orthodox protesters block major Israeli highways over army draft arrests
Shilo Freid, Shalev Kachlon, Raanan Ben-Zur, YNet News, August 20, 2025
Dozens of Modern Orthodox rabbis call for ‘moral clarity’ in the face of Gaza humanitarian crisis
Philissa Cramer, The Jerusalem Post, August 20, 2025
As draft crisis escalates, Haredi leaders downplay danger to troops in war
Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, August 20, 2025
Hundreds of Haredi anti-draft protesters block highways in central Israel
Michael Bachner, The Times of Israel, August 20, 2025
Gaza: ‘Sickening normalisation’ of suffering, amid attacks on people and aid convoys
UN News, December 13, 2024 [Highest number of child amputees worldwide]
After seeing misery up close, the man feeding Gaza says there’s no doubt Strip is starving
Nurit Yohanan, The Times of Israel, August 20, 2025
IDF says it has killed over 2,100 Hamas operatives since resuming Gaza fighting in March
Emmanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, August 20, 2025
Sisi reaffirms to Macron Egypt’s rejection of any Palestinian displacement
Egypt Today, August 20, 2025
Macron says Israel’s offensive in Gaza will lead to ‘disaster’
Al Arabiya, August 20, 2025
Israel to respond by Friday over Gaza truce plan accepted by Hamas
Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, August 19, 2025
UN warns Gaza violence behind record humanitarian toll
Iraqi News, August 19, 2025
At Rafah crossing, Egypt presents its grand vision for post-war Gaza
Smadar Perry, YNet News, August 19, 2025
Gaza: Aid insufficient to avert ‘widespread starvation’ as Israeli military ramp-up forces more people to flee
UN News, August 19, 2025
In Israel, One Man’s Hunger Strike Puts His Body on the Line ‘Until Every Gazan Is Fed’
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, August 19, 2025
Palestinians await relief as mediators push for Gaza ceasefire
Iraqi News, August 19, 2025
Haredi leaders call for global day of prayer, fasting to protest arrest of draft dodgers
Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, August 19, 2025 [‘Jews are persecuting Jews because learning Torah’]
Haredim, police clash during protest on major highway: ‘The state will get prisoners, not soldiers’
Shilo Freid, Roy Rubinstein, YNet News, August 19, 2025 [‘We will die before we enlist‘]
As Gaza war drags on, some reservists increasingly lose faith in Netanyahu’s motives
Reuters, The Times of Israel, August 19, 2025 [turnout less than half of war’s start]
Demolishing Gaza: Never in Israel’s History Were So Many Buildings Leveled
Hagai Amit, Haaretz, August 19, 2025
‘World Humanitarian Day, an opportunity to showcase solidarity among nations’
The Tehran Times, August 19, 2025
Amnesty says Israel deliberately starving Gaza’s Palestinians
Al Arabiya, August 18, 2025
Leaving Gaza is the only way to defeat Hamas – opinion
Nimrod Koren, The Jerusalem Post, August 18, 2025
Israeli controls choke Gaza relief at Egypt border, say aid workers
AFP, Iraqi News, August 18, 2025
Our last chance to stop the madness [ a call for civil resistance ]
Shimon Sheves, The Times of Israel, August 18, 2025
Hundreds of Thousands of Israelis Join Nationwide Strike for Gaza Hostage Deal
Haaretz, August 17, 2025
Nearly 500,000 Israelis rally for the release of the hostages in Tel Aviv
The Jerusalem Post, August 17, 2025
Ex-chief rabbi: Why listen to ‘atheist’ Netanyahu?
Shilo Freid, YNet News, August 17, 2025
Hamas rejects Israel’s Gaza relocation plan
Al Arabiya, August 17, 2025
‘Only the beginning’: Highways blocked amid nationwide strike for hostages
The Times of Israel, August 17, 2025
‘Children in Gaza Don’t Matter Now,’ Said the ‘Moderate’ IDF General
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, August 17, 2025 [‘For every victim of October 7, 50 Palestinians had to die.’]
‘You are letting us die’: Matan Zangauker pleads from Hamas captivity in new video
The Jerusalem Post, August 17, 2025
‘Prayers are not enough’: Hostage families urge ceasefire deal on eve of national strike
The Times of Israel, August 17, 2025
Egypt’s FM, Palestinian PM visit Rafah border crossing Monday
Egyptian, Palestinian prime ministers discuss post-war conference
Egypt Today, August 17, 2025
A Palestinian State Would Rescue Israel. It Would Not Be a Reward for Hamas
Amos Schoken, August 16, Haaretz, August 16, 2025
Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza
Mohamad Bazzi, The Guardian, August 16, 2025
European leaders release joint statement after Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska
Al Arabiya, August 16, 2025
Gaza City puts up fierce resistance
Wesam Bahrani, The Tehran Times, August 16, 2025
‘On Sunday, We Are Pausing Our Daily Lives to Save the Hostages’
Bar Peleg, Haaretz, August 16, 2025
Nobel-winning economists urge Netanyahu to halt Gaza’s growing hunger
Sever Plocker, YNet News, August 15, 2025 22:43
US, European economists urge Israel to halt Gaza policies
Hurriyet Daily News, August 15, 2025 12;52
US, European economists, including 10 Nobel laureates, urge Israel to halt Gaza policies worsening starvation
Ahmet Salih Alacaci, Anadolu Ajansi, August 15, 2025
Top Economists Warn Netanyahu: Israeli Policies Risk ‘Widespread Famine’ in Gaza
Ben Samuels, Haaretz, August 15, 2025 02:24
UN says at least 1,760 killed while seeking aid in Gaza since late May
The Jordan Times, August 15, 2025
Trapped in Gaza: Palestinians with disabilities cannot reach aid
UN News, August 15, 2025
‘Hellish’: heatwave brings hottest nights on record to the Middle East
Ajit Niranjan, The Guardian, August 15, 2025
‘Free the hostages’: Hundreds of Haredim protest outside prison holding draft evaders
Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, August 15, 2025
Recovery or Domination: How the Arab Plan for Gaza Is Clashing With Israel’s Far-right Vision
Zvi Bar’el, Haaretz, August 15, 2025
Egypt slams approval of 3.4K settlement units near East Jerusalem
Egypt Today, August 14, 2025
Smotrich says he’ll okay 3,000 homes east of Jerusalem, ‘burying idea of Palestinian state’
Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, August 14, 2025
How the Lebanese Army dismantles weapons caches in southern Lebanon
L’Orient Today, August 14, 2025
Palestinian Authority accuses Ben-Gvir of provocation after threatening Barghouti in prison
The Jerusalem Post, August 14, 2025
Haredi members of ultra-Orthodox burn IDF conscription orders, briefly try to break into military prison
Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, August 14, 2025
Police raid Rabbi Dov Lior’s home, two grandchildren arrested
Israel National News, August 14, 2025
Senior ultra-Orthodox rabbi: ‘The army is idolatry, bloodshed and immorality’
Shilo Freid, YNet News, August 13, 2025
‘If you took me back to the night I bought my Nova ticket, I’d buy it again’
Hagar Kochavi, YNet News, August 13, 2025
Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it
Jodie Ginsberg, The Guardian, August 13, 2025
Zakaria Zubeidi claims life of terror ‘ultimately futile’ in NYT interview
The Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2025
The Palestinian Who Led a Militia, a Theater and a Jailbreak
Patrick Kingsley, Fatima AbdulKarim, The New York Times, August 12, 2025
Dates Are ‘Luxury’ – and Other Ways Israel Hinders Aid Trucks From Reaching Starving Gazans
Nir Hasson, Sheren Falah Saab, Avi Scharf, Haaretz, August 12, 2025
The Elders group of global leaders warns of Gaza ‘genocide’
The Tehran Times, August 12, 2025
EU and 24 nations including UK, Japan urge action against ‘famine unfolding’ in Gaza
The Times of Israel, August 12, 2025
‘War must be stopped’: Israeli fighter pilots protest outside IDF’s HQ, call for Gaza deal
Amir Bohbot, The Jerusalem Post, August 12, 2025
Gaza: UNESCO condemns ‘unacceptable’ killing of journalists
Gaza: UN rights experts condemn ‘killing and silencing’ of journalists
UN News, August 12, 2025 / February 1 ,2024
Israel steps up Gaza City bombing after Netanyahu vow to expand the offensive
Al Arabiya, August 11, 2025
Deadly strike on Al Jazeera crew sparks outcry over journalist safety
Mai Anati, The Jordan Times, August 11, 2025
‘They Don’t Want Any Voices Left Inside Gaza’: Killing of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif Stirs Outrage and Fear
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, August 11, 2025
Tributes, condemnation pour in over slain Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
Al Jazeera, August 11, 2025 [with list of 274 journalists, media workers killed since October 2023]
U2 members speak out on Gaza: ‘A test of our shared humanity’
Lisa Respers France, CNN, August 11, 2025
U2 VOICE SUPPORT FOR GAZA: ‘SILENCE SERVES NONE OF US’
Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, August 11, 2025
Israeli settlers intensify campaign to drive out West Bank Palestinians
Jeremy Bowen, BBC, August 11, 2025
Israel’s march of folly in Gaza: Leadership failures endanger war goals
Michael Milshtein, YNet News, August 10, 2025
U2 letter on Gaza condemns Israeli government and Hamas, asks for a ceasefire and hostages back
Hannah Brown, The Jerusalem Post, August 10, 2025
‘Jews, Rebel!’: Ex-Knesset Speaker Calls on World Jews to Take Israel to ICJ Over Gaza War Crimes
Etan Nechin, Haaretz, August 10, 2025
Families of hostages call for general strike next week over government’s war plan
Charlie Summers, Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, August 10, 2025
‘There is no military solution’ to end Israel-Palestine conflict, Security Council hears, as starvation stalks the Gaza Strip
UN News, August 10, 2025
‘Either They End the War or They Kill Us’: Gaza City Residents Fear Israel’s Planned Takeover
Jack Khoury, Haaretz, August 9, 2025
Gaza Strip: 98.5 percent of cropland unavailable for cultivation as famine looms
Relief Web, August 9, 2025
This Was One of the Last Bridges Between Jews and Arabs. Israel Demolished It, Too
Ronit Vered, Haaretz, August 9, 2025
Haredi newspapers declare ‘war’ over IDF enlistment efforts
Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, August 7, 2025
Senior EU official says Gaza war ‘looks very much’ like definition of genocide
The Times of Israel, August 7, 2025
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Harry Davies, Yuval Abraham, The Guardian, August 6, 2025
‘We never see kids like this:’ Israeli doctors speak out on emaciated Gazan children
Jeremy Sharon, The Times of Israel, August 5, 2025
‘A Futile War’: Former Israeli Security Chiefs Warn Current Gaza War Has No Strategy
Rachel Fink, Haaretz, August 4, 2025
Hundreds of ex-Israeli security officials urge Trump to help end war in Gaza
William Christou, The Guardian, August 4, 2025
‘On the precipice of defeat’: 19 former defense chiefs demand end to Gaza war
The Times of Israel, August 4, 2025
Operation Gideon’s Chariots ends without achieving main goals, internal disputes over Gaza strategy
Yoav Zitun, YNet News, August 4, 2025 – 5-mn video of Evyatar David in a tunnel
As Piers Morgan Said, if Palestinians Must Leave Gaza, Why Shouldn’t Israelis Leave Israel?
Odeh Bisharat, Haaretz, August 4, 2025
‘I am at death’s door’: Family of hostage Rom Braslavski allows release of PIJ video
The Times of Israel, August 3, 2025
‘You Don’t Understand How Burned Out We Are’: Inside Northern Gaza’s Flattened Beit Hanoun With Israeli Soldiers
Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, August 1, 2025
‘Famine silently begins to unfold’ in Gaza, UNRWA chief says
UN News, July 24, 2025
Terror and chaos for Gaza’s people now entering the ‘death phase’
UN News, July 21, 2025
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Sammy Westfall, Amaya Verde, Julia Ledur, Hazem Balousha, The Washington Post, July 30, 2025
Media July 2025
Foreign journalists step up push for access to Gaza, express fear for hungry colleagues
Stav Levaton,Times of Israel, July 30 2025
If Israelis and Jews Don’t Act Now, We’re Complicit: Here’s How to Stop Gaza’s Starvation
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Haaretz, July 30 2025
22 ministers, lawmakers demand Katz allow settlement group to tour northern Gaza, check locations for future settlements
Sam Sokol, Times of Israel, July 30 2025
As images from Gaza spread, US rabbis wrestle with war’s morality from the pulpit
Asaf Elia Shalev, Times of Israel, July 30 2025
‘I Don’t Understand What We’re Fighting For’: Freed Hostage Arbel Yehoud Slams Israel’s Prolonged War in Gaza
Bar Peleg, Haaretz, July 30 2025
Almost a third of people in Gaza not eating for days, UN food programme warns
Maia Davies, BBC News, July 29 2025
Palestinian PM says Hamas must disarm, surrender Gaza control to PA
Al Arabiya, July 29 2025
Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live
Tom Ambrose, Yohannes Lowe, Hamish Mackay, The Guardian, July 29 2025
In first, two major Israeli human rights groups accuse Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza
Nurit Yohanan, Toi Staff & AP, Times of Israel, July 28 2025
Saudi Arabia and France to lead UN push for recognising Palestinian statehood
Andrew Roth,The Guardian, July 28 2025
‘We’re Feeling Their Pain’: Arab Israeli Leaders Declare Three-day Hunger Strike Over Gaza Starvation
Linda Dayan, Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, July 28 2025
Hundreds of rabbis demand Israel stop ‘using starvation as a weapon of war’
Ben Sales, Times of Israel, July 27 2025
Israel-Gaza war live: Europe debates recognition of Palestine as starvation spreads in Gaza
Charlie Moloney, The Guardian, July 26 2025
Gaza hospitals say kids without underlying health conditions now dying of starvation
AP and Toi Staff, Times of Israel, July 25 2025
Israel Starved 43 People to Death by Wednesday Afternoon. The Gaza War Is in a Fatal New Phase
Nir Hasson, Haaretz, July 25 2025
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
Malak A Tantesh, Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian, July 24 2025
Top news agencies urge Israel to let foreign press into Gaza, say reporters starving
AFP and Toi Staff, Times of Israel, July 24 2025
Gaza suffering man-made mass starvation, says WHO chief
William Christou, The Guardian, July 23 2025
Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars
Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian, July 23 2025
Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live
Joe Coughlan, The Guardian, July 23 2025
‘Peace is a choice’: UN chief urges diplomacy as wars spread from Gaza to Ukraine
Vibhu Mishra, Un News, July 22 2025
Gaza: UN staff now fainting from hunger, exhaustion; WHO worker detained
Un News,July 22 2025
‘We Refuse to See Them Die’: AFP Issues Statement About Journalists’ Risk of Starvation in Gaza
Haaretz, July 22 2025
France’s FM urges Israel to give foreign press free access to Gaza to ‘bear witness’
Toi Staff, Times of Israel, July 22 2025
28 Western nations say Gaza war ‘must end now,’ suffering has ‘reached new depths’
Toi Staff, Nava Freiberg, Times of Israel, July 21 2025
Catherine Nicholls, Kareem Khadder, Jeremy Diamond, CNN, July 21 2025
Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 93 reported killed by Israeli fire while waiting
Jennifer Rankin, The Guardian, July 20, 2025
Barred from working in Israel, West Bank Palestinians pay a price for Gaza’s war
Nurit Yohanan, The Times of Israel July 19, 2025
US envoy demands ‘harsh consequences’ as he visits Christian town attacked by settlers
Toi Staff, The Times of Israel, July 19, 2025
Under pressure from Trump, Netanyahu says he ‘regrets’ mistaken shelling of Gaza church
Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, July 18, 2025
US says it opposed Israeli strikes in Syria
Al Arabiya, July 18, 2025
ToI poll: Gaza war most pressing issue for Israeli public ahead of next election
Tal Schneider, The Times of Israel, July 17, 2025
New Satellite Data Shows: Gaza Devastation Scale Greater Than Estimated, at Least 70 Percent of Buildings Leveled
Nir Hasson, Haaretz, July 17, 2025
Hopes for a quick deal with Syria are gone, but Israel needs a strategy beyond strikes
Lazar Berman, The Times of Israel, July 17, 2025
Israeli Strike on a Gaza Church Kills Three
Natan Odenheimer, The New York Times, July 17, 2025
Statement Of The Latin Patriarchate Of Jerusalem
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, July 17, 2025
IDF attacks Latin Church complex in Gaza City, two women killed, priest lightly injured
Jack Khoury, Nir Hasson, Rawan Suleiman, Haaretz, July 17, 2025
Telegram Of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV Regarding The Attack On The Holy Family Parish In Gaza
Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem, July 17, 2025
In EU first, Slovenia to ban Ben Gvir and Smotrich over ‘genocidal statements’
The Times of Israel, July 17, 2025
Handshakes or Airstrikes: What Does Israel Want in Syria?
Patrick Kingsley, The New York Times, July 17, 2025
After IDF strikes, Syria’s Sharaa accuses Israel of seeking ‘chaos and destruction’
Reuters, The Times of Israel, July 17, 2025
US says ‘specific steps’ agreed to end Syria violence after Israeli strikes hit Damascus
David Gritten, BBC, July 17, 2025
IDF: Over 100 missiles fired, Syrian military HQ in Damascus damaged or destroyed
Yoav Zitun, YNet News, July 17, 2025
Syria says withdrawing troops after agreeing to ceasefire in Sweida
Al Arabiya, July 17, 2025
War monitor: Israeli strikes killed 15 Syrian defense and interior ministry personnel
AFP, The Times of Israel, July 17, 2025
UN special coordinator says Lebanon needs to make a plan for disarming Hezbollah
Al Arabiya, July 17, 2025
Prosecutor summons MP over post supporting banned Muslim Brotherhood group
The Jordan Times, July 17, 2025
Border chaos as 1,000 Druze breach frontier into Syria; heavy IDF strikes hit Damascus
Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, The Times of Israel, July 16, 2025
At least 20 Palestinians killed in crush at food distribution site in southern Gaza
Malak A Tantesh, Julian Borger, Sufian Taha, The Guardian, July 16, 2025
At Least 20 Killed in Stampede Outside a Gaza Food Site, Aid Group Says
Lara Jakes, Nader Ibrahim, The New York Times, July 16, 2025
Jordan slams Israel’s ‘E1 Plan’ as ‘blatant violation’ of International Law
The Jordan Times, July 16, 2025
World’s ‘oldest’ marathon runner dies at 114 in hit-and-run
Saurabh Duggal, BBC, July 15, 2025
93 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says
Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, The Times of Israel, July 15, 2025
What to Know About Israel’s Strikes in Syria
Christina Goldbaum, The New York Times, July 15, 2025
Over 20 countries join emergency summit in Colombia over Israel’s alleged international law violations
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, July 15, 2025
UN’s Albanese hails 30-nation meeting aimed at ending Israeli occupation of Palestine
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, July 15, 2025
UN says mass displacement of West Bank Palestinians at highest levels since 1967
AFP, The Times of Israel, July 15, 2025
Divided EU weighs action against Israel over Gaza war
Al Arabiya, July 15, 2025
IDF chief said to call Gaza humanitarian city plan ‘unworkable’ at security meeting
The Times of Israel, July 15, 2025
Don’t Stop at a Gaza Cease-fire. Now Is the Time for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Hiba Qasas, Haaretz, July 14, 2025
In Gaza, we know why Israel wants to herd us all into one camp – our lives are bargaining chips
Nour Abo Aisha, The Guardian, July 14, 2025
PA’s Abbas urges Hamas to free the hostages, cede its arms, says terror group won’t rule postwar Gaza
The Times of Israel, July 14, 2025
117 Palestinians killed by IDF in Gaza in past 24 hours, Health Ministry says
Jack Khoury, Haaretz, July 14, 2025
Three IDF troops killed, officer seriously wounded in northern Gaza fighting
The Times of Israel, July 14, 2025
IDF combat soldier committed suicide in a base in northern Israel, the third case in eight days
Tom Levinson, Haaretz, July 14, 2023
I Accuse: I Oppose Israel’s War and Occupation. Now, Israel’s Parliament Is Trying to Expel Me
Ayman Odeh, Haaretz, July 14, 2025
Israeli government and military clash over proposed camp for Palestinians
Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian, July 14, 2025
IDF said to warn against Gaza ‘humanitarian city’; ex-PM Olmert brands it ‘concentration camp’
Nava Freiberg, AFP, The Times of Israel, July 14, 2025
IDF Reiterates Ban on Gazans Entering the Sea, Last Remaining Source of Relief for Many Palestinians
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, July 13, 2025 [Are they going to ban the air next ?]
The Guernica of Israel’s War of Extermination in Gaza
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, July 13, 2025
Why Is the IDF Sending My Daughter to Guard West Bank Settlements?
Moran Michel, Haaretz, July 13, 2025
Yes to a Palestinian State: A Response to Israel’s Former UN Envoy Gilad Erdan
Amos Shocken, Haaretz, July 13, 2025
‘We Palestinians don’t have anything concrete to support our existence as a nation’
YNet News, July 12, 2025
French-Saudi summit on two-state solution rescheduled to end of July, after delays from Iran war
Amichai Stein, The Jerusalem Post, July 12, 2025
As All Sides Wait for a Cease-fire, Israel’s Pointless War in Gaza Claims More Lives
Amos Harel, Haaretz, July 11, 2025
Nobel laureate Mohammadi says Iran issuing death threats
Iraqi News, July 11, 2025
Gaza officials say 8 children among 13 killed in strike IDF says targeted Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist
The Times of Israel, July 11, 2025
Hamas to Decide on List of Hostages Released in Gaza Cease-fire, Netanyahu Tells Families
Bar Peleg, Liza Rozovsky, Haaretz, July 11, 2025
War doesn’t end on the battlefield: Israel must better support veterans with PTSD
Editorial, The Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2025
After a Lifetime of Quixotic Battles, Israel’s Physicians for Human Rights Founder Has Little Hope for Israelis and Palestinians
Gili Izikovich, Haaretz, July 11, 2025
Gaza plan likened to Nazi camps, sparks condemnation and political storm
The Jerusalem Post, July 10, 2025
Israel Wants to Build the Most Moral Concentration Camp in the World
Editorial, Haaretz, July 10, 2025
At least 23, including eight children, killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza
AFP, Al Arabiya, July 10, 2025
Israeli soldier killed during attempted Hamas abduction in southern Gaza, IDF says
AFP, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, The Times of Israel, July 10, 2025
The Jewish State Is Building a Ghetto
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, July 10, 2025
PKK disarmament expected to take months to complete
Iraqi News, July 10, 2025
Mahmoud Abbas insists US includes PA in Gaza ceasefire negotiations – report
The Jerusalem Post, July 10, 2025
‘If We Lose Hope, We Lose Everything’: Telling the Life Stories of Jewish and Arab Women Waging Peace in the Midst of War
Rachel Fink, Haaretz, July 10, 2025
Rafah, Gaza: Unrelenting tide of injuries in last fully operational hospital
The Jordan Times, July 9, 2025
Netanyahu’s Victory Is Israel’s Loss
Mairav Zonszein, The New York Times, July 9, 2025
Trump is Israel’s last chance to stop ‘Vietnamization’ of Gaza war
Nadav Eyal, YNet News, July 9, 2025
Five Israelis Who Refuse to Fight in Gaza: ‘This War Had Crossed Every Moral, Security and Ethical Boundary’
Yahel Gazit, Haaretz, July 9, 2025
At least 20 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza: Civil defense
AFP, Al Arabiya, July 9, 2025
Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sites
Jason Burke, The Guardian, July 9, 2025
While Israel and Iran Swapped Missiles, Palestinians and Israelis Talked Peace in Paris
Yonatan Zeigen, Haaretz, July 9, 2025
US said to tell mediators it won’t let Israel resume Gaza war, as optimism for deal swirls
Jacob Magid, The Times of Israel, July 9, 2025
Trump holds fresh talks with Netanyahu to end Gaza ‘tragedy’
AFP, France 24, July 9, 2025
Israeli troops in West Bank push Palestinians from their homes
Al Arabiya, July 9, 2025
France: US overstated Iran strike impact, nuclear program only set back by months
Reuters, YNet News, July 8, 2025
Israeli officials claim 80-90% of Gaza deal settled, but core issue of ending war unresolved
Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman, The Times of Israel, July 8, 2025
Trump and Netanyahu Meet Amid Gaza Cease-Fire Negotiations
The New York Times, July 8, 2025
Gazans reject Trump’s displacement plan despite destruction: ‘This is our land’
Reuters, The Times of Israel, July 8, 2025
Israeli defence minister plans to move Gaza’s population to camp in Rafah
Hamas used sexual violence as part of ‘genocidal strategy’, Israeli experts say
Ione Wells, David Gritten, BBC, July 8, 2025
Wartime innovation increases Israeli defense tech growth, drawing global attention
Reuters, Al Arabiya, July 8, 2025
Hamas timed IED blast that killed five soldiers in-between IDF air, artillery fire
Yonah Jeremy Bob, The Jerusalem Post, July 8, 2025
The road to a new Mideast passes through ending the war, will Netanyahu take it?
Nadav Eyal, YNet News, July 7, 2025
BRIC’s joint statement condemns US-Israeli attacks on Iranian soil
Garsha Vazirian, The Tehran Times, July 7, 2025
What’s at Stake as Netanyahu and Trump Meet in Washington
Aaron Boxerman, The New York Times, July 7, 2025
There Is Only One Way to End the Gaza War and Prevent Future Bloodbaths
Dahlia Scheindlin, Haaretz, June 26/July 7, 2025
On the radio and online, Palestinians keep up with Israel’s roadblocks in the West Bank
The Jordan Times, July 7, 2025
Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as settlers circle their homes
William Christou, Quique Kierszenbaum, The Guardian, July 7, 2025
A look at Israel’s strategy to Balkanize Iran and why it will fail
Xavier Villar, The Tehran Times, July 7, 2025
Why Hamas can keep fighting without Iran, and what that means for Israel
Daniel Freedman, The Jerusalem Post, July 6, 2025
Israel’s Deadly Assault on Iran Prison Incites Fury, Even Among Dissidents
Farnaz Fassihi, Parin Behrooz, Leily Nikounazar, The New York Times, July 6, 2025
Report: Iranian missiles hit 5 Israeli military sites during 12-Day War
YNet News, July 6, 2025
Hamas security officer says group has lost control over most of Gaza
Rushdi Abualouf, BBC, July 6, 2025
‘Now I Understand Why Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in Gaza’
Netta Ahituv, Haaretz, July 5, 2025
Hamas responds ‘positively’ to truce offer, says it’s ready to start proximity talks
Jacob Magid, The Times of Israel, July 5, 2025
‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
William Christou, Malak A Tantesh, The Guardian, July 5, 2025
Thousands rally for hostages with cabinet set to discuss emerging Gaza truce
The Times of Israel, July 5, 2025
Has Gaza’s death toll reached 100,000?
L’Orient Today, July 5, 2025
Dalai Lama says he hopes to live for another 40 years
Al Arabiya, July 5, 2025
Freed hostage Ofer Calderon recounts trauma of learning 2 children also captive in Gaza
The Times of Israel, July 5, 2025
Egypt strives to reach ‘final formula’ for Gaza ceasefire as Hamas submits ‘positive response’
Egypt Today, July 4, 2025
Eternal War: Israel Is Marching Straight Into the Trap of ‘Seizing’ Gaza
Zvi Bar’el, Haaretz, July 4, 2025
As sides await Hamas response to truce deal, Trump said to offer personal pledge to end war
Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman, The Times of Israel, July 4, 2025
A ceasefire in Gaza appears to be close. Here’s why it could happen now
Jason Burke, The Guardian, July 4, 2025
IDF says 2 soldiers killed in separate incidents in Gaza as toll mounts
Stav Levaton, The Times of Israel, July 4, 2025
Hamas Says It Is Ready to Negotiate Truce Proposal
Adam Rasgon, Ephrat Livni, The New York Times, July 4, 2025
‘We’re not the same people anymore’ What Israelis don’t want to hear after months of fighting in Gaza
Tom Levinson, Haaretz, July 3, 2025
Hamas said happy with US guarantee on talks to end Gaza war as ceasefire momentum grows
Nurit Yohanan, Stav Levaton, The Times of Israel, July 3, 2025
Gaza’s leading cardiologist Marwan al-Sultan killed in Israeli strike
Clémentine Mariuzzo, L’Orient Today, July 3, 2025
Victims of Israeli Strike on Seaside Café: A Journalist, a Star Soccer Player and Gaza’s Youngest Female Boxer
Nagham Zbeedat, Haaretz, July 3, 2025
Where Do Israel-Hamas Truce Negotiations Stand?
Adam Rasgon, Natan Odenheimer, The New York Times, July 3, 2025
Israel steps up deadly bombardment of Gaza before ceasefire talks
Jason Burke, The Guardian, July 3, 2025
UN chief ‘appalled’ by worsening Gaza crisis as civilians face displacement, aid blockades
UN News, July 3, 2025
Anger, protests, tears and courtesy as Netanyahu finally visits Nir Oz, worst-hit Oct. 7 kibbutz
Michael Horovitz, The Times of Israel, July 3, 2025
Israeli forces storm Al Aqsa Mosque 25 times in June — Palestinian ministry
The Jordan Times, July 3, 2025
Gaza hospital director killed in Israeli strike, relative says
Mallory Moench, BBC, July 3, 2025
I Am a Palestinian Living in Gaza. This Is My Cease-fire Proposal to Israel
Mahmoud Shehada, Haaretz, July 3, 2025
The Unseen Crisis: Childhoods shaped by conflict and poverty in the West Bank
Relief Web, July 3, 2025
Gaza death toll reaches 57,130 amid ongoing Israeli offensive
Egypt Today, July 3, 2025
Israel arms Fatah-linked militias, combatting Hamas in Gaza
YNet News, July 3, 2025
Gaza café attack kills dozens as Israelis use 230kg bomb in possible ‘war crime’: The Guardian
Egypt Today, July 3, 2025
Israel Tried to Stop Iran’s Doomsday Clock – but Ran Out of Time
Yossi Melman, Haaretz, July 2, 2025
Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC alarmed by intensification of Gaza hostilities amid decimated healthcare system
Relief Web, July 2, 2025
BBC visits heart of Tibetan resistance as showdown looms between Dalai Lama and China
Laura Bicker, BBC, July 2, 2025
‘Turns Out You Can Even Kill Cadavers’: Inside the Scientific and Financial Catastrophe Iran Left in Israel
Ruti Levy, Haaretz, July 2, 2025
Israel lost on the battlefield — and also in the diplomatic arena
The Tehran Times, July 2, 2025
Israeli military used 500lb bomb in strike on Gaza cafe, fragments reveal
Jason Burke, The Guardian, July 2, 2025
Chilling Maps Show: Iran’s Missiles Obliterated Israeli Neighborhoods
Bar Peleg, Ran Shimoni, Adi Hashmonai, Haaretz, June 30-July 1, 2025
‘Beyond anything imaginable’: dozens killed at busy Gaza seafront cafe
Witnesses describe grim aftermath of Israeli strike on busy Gaza cafe
Jason Burke, Malak A Tantesh, The Guardian, July 1, 2025
‘Massive response’ needed following Gaza conflict’s ‘horrific toll’ on children
UN News, July 1, 2025
Gaza: Families deprived of the means for survival, humanitarians warn
UN News, June 30, 2025
A shift in our stands ? For years, our sources were the mainstream Western media, from England, France, the US, and Israel, adding Al Monitor for the Palestinian angle. Until it became only too obvious that we needed Eastern sources, to balance. In May 2025 we then started scanning media from Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. Fair enough, when you’re dealing with the Middle-East.
Begging the question: how come we didn’t open these windows before ? Did you ?
Then came the flood of lies and deception of June 2025. On all sides, from Tehran to Washington. Unsavoury festival of grotesque postures and fake news (in Tehran they claimed they had shot three Israeli F35s down… in Washington, the Boss said he would give it two weeks, and his weeks morphed into days, etc.). Sickening after a while. As Friedrich Nietzsche put it : “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
Bringing us back to all the previous strings of blatant lies used as excuses to start war, from the Tonkin Gulf incident, back in August 1964, used to send troops to Viet-Nam, to the infamous “Weapons of Mass Destruction” hoax in 2003…
The consequence of this accelerated loss of trust in June 2025 has been that we focused increasingly on our basic coexistence identity, and opened ourselves to such sources as United Nations News, UNICEF, Relief Web (Informing Humanitarians Worldwide), and we neglected media that had fallen into propaganda, or that were too state-controlled, lacking in content, analysis (among them some Israeli, Saudi, Jordanian, Lebanese media).
On top you will find two sources from Israel : Haaretz, and The Times of Israel, followed by Egypt Today, the BBC… We don’t care what the political colour of a source is supposed to be. What matters is the quality of the investigations into reality, facts on the ground, and the relevance of prospects opened.
It will be interesting to check how it all evolves in the summer of 2025, daily.
Media June 2025
Gaza: Families deprived of the means for survival, humanitarians warn
U N News, June 30, 2025
Enough of the War, Everywhere – Whether in Gaza, Tehran or Tel Aviv
Sheren Falah Saab, Haaretz, June 30, 2025
Defense agencies have lost control over Jewish extremists in West Bank – analysis
Yonah Jeremy Bob, The Jerusalem Post, June 30, 2025
Far Right settlers damage IDF facility worth millions, meant to protect Jewish residents – report
The Jerusalem Post, June 30, 2025
228 journalists killed since Israeli’s genocidal war on Gaza Strip
Egypt Today, June 30, 2025
Dozens said killed in Gaza; IDF admits it has killed several civilians near aid sites
Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Lazar Berman, Agencies, The Times of Israel, June 30, 2025
Israel was facing destruction at the hands of Iran. This is how close it came, and how it saved itself
David Horovitz, The Times of Israel, June 30, 2025
Author of ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’: ‘The Government of Netanyahu, for Me, Doesn’t Represent the Israeli People’
Gili Izikovich, Haaretz, May 30, 2025
Israeli protestors urge action for Gaza hostages after Iran truce
Egypt Today, June 29, 2025
IDF ramps up Gaza strikes, signals new phase of war
Einav Halabi, YNet News, June 29, 2025
Israeli army orders mass evacuations in northern Gaza, says operations will intensify
Egypt Today, June 29, 2025
Smotrich responds to settler riots: IDF shooting at Jews is ‘red line’ [‘The IDF and the settlers are one and the same’]
Hagar Shezaf, Haaretz, June 29, 2025
Haifa oil refinery partly reopens after shutdown caused by deadly Iran strike
Reuters, The Times of Israel, June 29, 2025
From missiles to deals
Muhammad Abu Ruman, The Jordan Times, June 29, 2025
Iran’s judiciary says 71 killed in Israeli strike on Evin Prison
Al Arabiya, June 29, 2025
How Israel Can Overcome Iran – and Netanyahu
Ehud Barak, Haaretz, June 29, 2025
Their labs destroyed by a missile, Weizmann scientists publish innovative blood cancer study
Diana Bletter, The Times of Israel, June 29, 2025
A shared commitment to human dignity and the pursuit of global peace
Archbishop Giovanni dal Toso, The Jordan Times, June 28, 2025
Italy allocates €10 million to support health sector in Gaza
Egypt Today, June 28, 2025
‘Make a brave decision’: Thousands in Tel Aviv demand PM seal Gaza hostage release deal
Noam Lehmann, The Times of Israel, June 28, 2025
Qatar urges Israel, Hamas to seize ‘window of opportunity’ for Gaza truce
AFP, The Jordan Times, June 28, 2025
Hundreds of U.S. Rabbis, Jewish Celebrities Back Gaza Food Aid Campaign [‘Unbearingly heartbreaking’]
Etan Nechin, Haaretz, June 27, 2025
Guterres calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire as humanitarian crisis reaches ‘horrific proportions’
U N News, June 27, 2025
Netanyahu must use displayed courage vis-à-vis Iran in Gaza war – opinion
Yaakov Katz, The Jerusalem Post, June 27, 2025
She Protested for the Israeli Hostages Every Day. She Won’t Get to See Them Return : Naomi Shaanan
Eden Solomon, Haaretz, June 26, 2025
Israel’s War in Gaza Has Killed Over 17,000 Children. These Are the Stories of 28 of Them
Sheren Falah Saab, Haaretz, June 26, 2025
‘Tehran is beautiful from above, I hope to visit one day’ Israeli pilot says after strike on Iran
The Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2025
‘Yes, Israel Demonstrated Its Power. But Strategically, the War in Iran Was a Mistake’
Jonathan Jacobson, Hooman Majd, Haaretz, June 26, 2025
‘Iran’s surrender’ — A claim far too big for U.S. president to utter [Khamenei’s post-war speech]
The Tehran Times, June 26, 2025
Khamenei declares victory over Israel, says US strikes on nuclear sites ‘failed to achieve anything important’
Egypt Today, June 26, 2025
100,000 Dead: What We Know About Gaza’s True Death Toll [official figures : over 17,000 children, 9,000 women killed]
Nir Hasson, Haaretz, June 26, 2025
The Lethal Risk of Seeking Food in Gaza
Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, Adam Rasgon, The New York Times, June 26, 2025
Netanyahu Halts North Gaza Aid After Smotrich Threatens to Quit Coalition Over Alleged Hamas Access
Yaniv Kubovich, Noa Shpigel, Jonathan Liss, Nir Hasson, Haaretz, June 26, 2025
After a month, deadly shootings near Gaza aid sites still a near-daily menace
Nurit Yohanan, Jacob Magid, The Times of Israel, June 26, 2025
Credit Where It’s Due: Netanyahu Ended the Israel-Iran War When Trump Ordered Him To
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, June 26, 2025
Israeli Jews Think That Attacking a Hospital Is a War Crime – Unless the IDF Does It
Ahmad Tibi, Haaretz, June 25, 2025
UN condemns Gaza aid ‘death trap’ as dozens reported killed by Israeli fire
Yolande Knell, BBC, June 25, 2025
Trump: After Iran truce breach, 52 Israeli jets were en route before strike was aborted
YNet News, June 25, 2025
‘Fuel for Gaza is a matter of life and death,’ UN warns
U N News, June 25, 2025
How global citizens challenge the official story on Israeli strikes in Iran
Faramarz Kouhpayeh, The Tehran Times, June 25, 2025
Expert says 70% of Israelis show trauma symptoms amid ongoing conflict
Maayan Hoffman, YNet News, June 25, 2025
Israel-Iran War: Israelis Now Understand What It’s Like to Have Ton-and-a-half Bombs Dropped on Their Homes
Sheren Falah Saab, Haaretz, June 24, 2025
US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites only set back program by months, Pentagon report says
Hugo Lowell, BBC, June 24, 2025
War shatters illusions on both sides of the October 7 line
Michael Milshtein, YNet News, June 24, 2025
‘Stop This Eternal War’: Hostage Families Demand Israel-Iran Truce to Include Gaza Deal
Bar Peleg, Yael Freidson, Haaretz, June 24, 2025
Poll underscores deep concern among US public over potential escalation with Iran
Reuters, The Times of Israel, June 24, 2025
Israel Will Always Have Gaza
Zvi Bar’el, Haaretz, June 24, 2025
Likud MKs invoke ‘hanging,’ ‘firing squad’ in hearing on impeaching Arab lawmaker
Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, June 24, 2025
Trump is not interested in listening to US experts on Iran’s nuclear program
James Risen, The Guardian, June 24, 2025
44 said killed near Gaza aid sites; UN condemns ‘weaponization’ of food distribution
Agencies, The Times of Israel, June 24, 2025
Did Trump have the legal authority to strike Iran?
Jake Horton, Lucy Gilder, BBC, June 24, 2025
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe denounces Israeli attack on Iran’s Evin prison
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, June 24, 2025
UN: Gaza faces “death sentence”
Wesam Bahrani, The Tehran Times, June 24, 2025
Trump thanks Iran for early notice on Qatar attack, says it helped prevent casualties
Al Arabiya, June 24, 2025
Israel Is Waging War on Iran, While the IDF Is Waging Spin on the Public
Yossi Melman, Haaretz, June 23, 2025
White House Faces Risk of Economic Fallout From Iran Strike
Tony Romm, The New York Times, June 23, 2025
Rafael Grossi’s role in provoking war on Iran
Soheila Zarfam, The Tehran Times, June 23, 2025
Freedom of the Press in Israel Is Under Attack Under the Guise of War With Iran
Haaretz Editorial, June 23, 2025
EU may take action against Israel if conditions in Gaza do not improve
Jennifer Rankin, The Guardian, June 23, 2025
Israel’s Orange Helmets: The Rescue Teams Facing Apocalyptic Sights Caused by Iran
Entire Neighborhoods Gone: The Israeli Rescue Teams Facing Apocalyptic Sights Caused by Iran
Bar Peleg, Haaretz, June 23, 2025
86 wounded by Iranian missile attacks on Israel after US strikes 3 Iran nuclear sites
Emanuel Fabian, Diana Bletter, Naomi Lanzkron, The Times of Israel, June 22, 2025
Thousands of Iranians and Israelis Sign Joint Letter Demanding a Cease-fire
Etan Nechin, Haaretz, June 22, 2025
Trump takes huge gamble putting US at heart of Iran-Israel conflict
BBC, June 22, 2025 [“This is how wars start“]
With Military Strike His Predecessors Avoided, Trump Takes a Huge Gamble
David E. Sanger, The New York Times, June 22, 2025
‘Much More Than Ayatollahs and Nukes’: What You Need to Learn to Understand Iran
Moshe Gilad, Haaretz, June 22, 2025
Turkey says Israel leading Middle East to ‘total disaster’
Al Arabiya, June 21, 2025
China’s vision for peace: De-escalating the Iran-Israel conflict
Jianlu Bi, The Tehran Times, June 21, 2025
32 nations but only one man matters – Nato’s summit is all about Trump
Jonathan Beale, BBC, June 21, 2025
Arab FMs condemn Israeli aggression on Iran, urge de-escalation and return to diplomacy
Egypt Today, June 21, 2025
Over 40 Wounded in Northern Israeli City of Haifa After 20 Iranian Missiles Fired
Haaretz, June 21, 2025
U.S. Military Is Pulled Back Into Middle East Wars
Helene Cooper, The New York Times, June 21, 2025
Iran files complaint against Grossi with UN Security Council
The Tehran Times, June 21, 2025
Trump and the Great Wait for Israelis and Iranians
Jess Bidgood, Patrick Kingsley, The New York Times, June 21, 2025
UN Warns of Water Shortage; Reports: Israeli Forces Kill 202 in Gaza in Last 48 Hours
Reuters, Haaretz, June 21, 2025
UAE warns against prolonged Iran–Israel war
Al Arabiya, June 21, 2025
Its country at war with Israel, Iran’s Jewish community walks a delicate tightrope
Zev Stub, The Times of Israel, June 20, 2025
‘The missiles completely erased decades of research; we will need to start from scratch,’ Weizmann president says
Zeev Avrahami, YNet News, June 20, 2025
Why everything Israelis think they know about Iran is wrong
Orly Noy, +972, June 20, 2025
Fear and shock in Iran: ‘I’m constantly afraid a missile might hit my home’
Jedidajah Otte, The Guardian, June 20, 2025
Science minister writes letter to UNESCO chief over assassination of Iranian scientists
Hossein Simaei-Sarraf, The Tehran Times, June 20, 2025
Gaza faces a man-made drought as water systems collapse, UNICEF says
The Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2025
‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans
Ahmed Ahmed, Ibtisam Mahdi, +972, June 20, 2025
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar posts in Persian for the first time to condemn Zionist aggression against Iran
Egypt Today, June 20, 2025
The Kirya: The Israeli army’s nerve center in the heart of Tel Aviv
Amelia Hankins, L’Orient Today, June 20, 2025
Analysis: How long can Israel and Iran fight, and how is it impacting US stockpiles?
Al Arabiya, June 19, 2025
Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar: True humanity cannot be led by arms trade and economies of destruction
Egypt Today, June 19, 2025
Gaza rescuers say Israeli fire kills 72
The Jordan Times, June 19, 2025
The CIA’s Iran coup: Why Trump may fear regime change in Tehran
Zeev Avrahami, YNet News, June 19, 2025
With Iran war as pretext, Israel suffocates the West Bank
Shatha Yaish, +972, June 19, 2025
Trump approves Iran attack plan but has not made final decision, reports say
Graeme Baker, Helen Sullivan, BBC, June 19, 2025
From heart tissue to DNA samples, Weizmann scientists mourn work vaporized in Iran attack
Rossella Tercatin, The Times of Israel, June 19, 2025
Reverse Exodus? The Israelis and Foreigners Escaping the War Through Egypt
Shany Littman, Haaretz, June 19, 2025
Iran nuclear chief: We will pursue legal action against Grossi for ‘inaction’ after Israeli strikes
The Tehran Times, June 19, 2025
A U.S. War With Iran Would Be a Catastrophe / How to not be dragged into this war
Rosemary Kelanic, The New York Times, June 18, 2025
Israel’s attack has exposed Iran’s lack of firepower – but conflict could yet turn in Tehran’s favour
Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian, June 19, 2025
Regime Change: Why Iranians Warn Israel’s Fantasy Could Turn to Nightmare
Dahlia Scheindlin, Haaretz, June 18, 2025
Israeli Strikes Kill Civilians Across Iran
Farnaz Fassihi, Leily Nikounazar, Parin Behrooz, The New York Times, June 18, 2025
A Fatal Failure: Israel’s Gaza Aid Policy Leaves Dozens Killed Daily as They Seek Food
Nir Hasson, Haaretz, June 18, 2025
Neglect of shelters in Arab towns a ‘grave failure that puts lives at risk,’ report warns
Hila Tsion, YNet News, June 18, 2025
Egypt’s UN Envoy: What happens in Gaza stains int’l community
Egypt Today, June 18, 2025
MK Tibi equates Beersheba hospital strike with hospitals hit in Gaza fighting
Sam Sokol, The Times of Israel, June 18, 2025
Who’s steering the ship? Navigating America’s conflicted approach in the Middle East
Ramzy Baroud, The Jordan Times, June 18, 2025
The farcical March to Gaza debacle shows it’s time the woke wake up – comment
Mathilda Heller, The Jerusalem Post, June 18, 2025
‘What are these wars for?’: Arab Israeli city of Tamra shattered by Iran strike
AFP, The Times of Israel, June 17, 2025
‘What if the strikes hit us on the highway?’: Thousands flee Tehran amid bombardment
William Christou, Deepa Parent, The Guardian, June 17, 2025
‘Don’t let beautiful Tehran become Gaza’: Iranians tell of shock and confusion
Caroline Hawley, BBC, June 17, 2025
Ancient Iranian Jewish community publicly backs Tehran’s call for ‘crushing’ reply
The Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2025
Hamas officials claim IDF killed at least 50 people near aid site; army checking
Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, June 17, 2025
How did Israel fall into its own self-developed trap?
Sondoss Al Asaad, Tehran Times, June 17, 2025
Days before the Iran strike: Trump received a briefing and gave green light for preemptive attack
YNet News, June 16, 2025
Iranian president says Tehran does not seek nuclear weapons
Reuters, June 16, 2025
No War With Iran Will Erase Israel’s Crimes in Gaza. Don’t Get Distracted
Michael Sfard, Haaretz, June 16, 2025
At least 37 Palestinians killed in Gaza food site shooting, local authorities say
Jason Burke, The Guardian, June 16, 2025
Israel-Iran: ‘This conflict poses a dire threat to the very foundations of human civilization’
Shirin Ebadi, Narges Mohammadi…, Le Monde, June 16, 2025
‘A bloodbath’: doctors describe carnage at Iran’s hospitals after Israeli strikes
William Christou, Deepa Parent, The Guardian, June 16, 2025
Iranian Nobel laureates, Cannes winner urge halt to Iran-Israel conflict
Iraqi News, June 16, 2025
Israel’s Gains in Iran Are Noteworthy, but the Nuclear Threat Still Looms Near
Ehud Barak, Haaretz, June 16, 2025
Iran has no intention of developing nuclear weapons: Iranian President
Al Arabiya, June 16, 2025
Interceptions Don’t Come Cheap: Iran’s Missile Barrage Spikes Israel’s Air Defense Costs
Hagai Amit, Haaretz, June 16, 2025
ET report: What roles Egypt played to support Palestinians in their fight for justice, freedom
Egypt Today, June 16, 2025
Netanyahu admits Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was Israeli initiative
Lazar Berman, Stav Levaton, The Times of Israel, June 16, 2025
Iranian strike on Haifa oil refinery plant kills three
Amichai Stein, The Jerusalem Post, June 16, 2025
Iranian president reiterates country’s stance against developing nuclear weapons
Tass Com, June 16, 2025
Projections of Thousands of Dead Civilians Prove Israeli Lives Don’t Matter to Netanyahu
Rogel Alpher; Haaretz, June 16, 2025
- Egypt’s Sisi: Ongoing Israeli military approach will inflict grave harm on peoples of the region, with no exception
Egypt Today, June 15, 2025
From Deterrence to Desperation: Has Israel Already Lost to Iran in the War for Our Safety?
Eitay Mack, Haaretz, June 15, 2025
Iranian missile barrage sparks fires in Haifa, Kiryat Gat; eight people hurt
Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, The Times of Israel, June 15, 2025
From Tehran to Tel Aviv, Bombs Fall. But What Netanyahu Calls Victory Feels Like Collapse
Etan Nechin, Haaretz, June 14, 2025
In Pictures: Aftermath of Iran’s retaliatory missile attacks near Tel Aviv |Rishon Le Zion]
BBC, June 14, 2025
Photos show heavy destruction in Ramat Gan after overnight missile strikes [Ramat Gan]
The Times of Israel, June 14, 2025
Iranian Media: 78 Killed, Over 200 Wounded in Israeli Strikes on Tehran
Haaretz, June 13, 2025
Security Council meets in emergency session over Iran-Israel conflict, amid strikes and counterstrikes
UN News, June 13, 2025
Shahed 129, Shahed 136: How Iran’s drones threaten Israel
The Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2025
Global oil prices soar after Israel attacks Iran
Peter Hoskins, BBC, June 13, 2025
Ben Gurion Airport evacuated, schools to remain closed as Israel braces for Iranian retaliation
YNet News, June 13, 2025
Live Updates: Israel Wipes Out Iran’s Top Military Chain of Command
The New York Times, June 13, 2025
Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist
UN News, June 13, 2025
UN says Gaza humanitarian foundation has failed in its mission
Al Arabiya, June 13, 2025
UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts resolution demanding immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire [149/19 abst./12 against : US, Israel, Argentina, Hungary, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, Micro…]
UN News, June 12, 2025
Egypt deports foreign nationals arriving for march to Gaza
Egypt Detains Hundreds of Activists Planning to Join Global March to Gaza
Haaretz, June 12, 2025
Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians seeking food in Gaza, health officials say
Julian Borger, The Guardian, June 12, 2025
US pulls staff from embassies in Iraq, Kuwait, and Bahrain
Iraqi News, June 12, 2025
Rafah Is Gone. Razed to the Ground. And It’s Not the Only City Wiped Out by the Israeli Army
Nir Hasson, Yarden Michaeli, Avi Scharf, Haaretz, June 12, 2025
Statement on Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Relief Web, June 12, 2025
Gaza death toll tops 55,000 as calls grow for ceasefire and accountability
Salam Fayyad, Yossi Kuperwasser, Denis Macshane, Al Arabiya, June 11, 2025
Gaza-bound land convoy arrives in Libya, headed to Rafah to defy Israel’s aid blockade
Agencies, The Times of Israel, June 11, 2027
An Israeli Soldier Killed a Palestinian Asleep in His Bed. His Fellow Troops Asked: ‘Are You Crazy?’
Weeks Later, No One Can Explain Why Israeli Troops Killed Yet Another Unarmed Palestinian Boy
Alex Levac & Gideon Levy, Haaretz, June 11 / March 7, 2025
Israeli army withdraws from Nablus after brutal military operation in West Bank city
Qais Abu Samra, Betul Yilmaz, Anadolu Ajansy, June 11, 2025
Boy who survived Gaza strike that killed his dad and 9 siblings goes to Italy for care
AFP, Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, June 11, 2025
Foreign ministry stresses need to comply with Gaza border visit regulations
Egypt Today, June 11, 2025
‘It’s a Disaster’: Gazans Describe Chaos, Violence at Food Aid Distribution Sites
Sheren Falah Saab, Liza Rozovsky, Rawan Suleiman, Haaretz, June 11, 2025
Video shows crowds in Gaza scale fence to rush for aid
BBC, June 11, 2025
Trump administration urges other countries to skip UN conference on Israel-Gaza war
Reuters, The Guardian, June 11, 2025
IDF: 2 Palestinians killed, 4 troops injured during attempt to snatch soldier’s gun in West Bank
Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, June 10, 2025
Two Palestinians killed as Israeli forces storm West Bank city
France24, June 10, 2025
IDF is besieging Nablus’ old city, Palestinian sources call it the largest Israeli operation in over two decades
Jack Khoury, Haaretz, June 10, 2025
More Israelis want the war to end – driven by fears for hotstages, rather than Gaza
Lucy Williamson, BBC, June 10, 2025
Independent UN commission says attacks on Gaza’s schools, religious sites amount to crimes against humanity
AFP, The Times of Israel, June 10, 2025
UK sanctions far-right Israeli ministers over Gaza comments
James Landale, Thomas Mackintosh, BBC, June 10, 2025
Palestinian President Abbas says supports demilitarization of Hamas
AFP, Al Arabiya, June 10, 2025
Abbas tells Macron he supports demilitarization of Hamas, commits to holding PA elections within year
AFP, The Times of Israel, June 10, 2025
Trump on Gaza flotilla: ‘Israel has enough problems without kidnapping Greta Thunberg’
The Jerusalem Post, June 10, 2025
Gaza: Search for food puts lives on the line
UN News, June 9, 2025
Top Israeli Military Analyst Has Horrifying Vision of Eternal War in Gaza
Odeh Bisharat, Haaretz, June 9, 2025
There’s No Way to ‘Explain’ This War Away
Hagai El-Ad, Haaretz, June 9, 2025
Gaza: Search for food puts lives on the line
U N News, June 9, 2025
Death toll in Gaza rises to 54,927 martyrs since beginning of war
Egypt Today, June 9, 2025
Statement from the Administrator on the Killing of UNDP Staff Member and his Family in Gaza
Achim Steiner, ReliefWeb, June 7, 2025
The Occupation Is Destroying Israel From Within, and Liberals Can’t Ignore It Anymore
Or Asher, Haaretz, June 7, 2025
Open letter from media and press freedom organizations on Gaza access
ReliefWeb, June 6, 2025
Act now to save lives in Gaza, ICRC head urges world leaders
BBC, June 6, 2025
The Gaza Starvation Experiment
ReliefWeb, June 6, 2025
Gaza rescuers say 37 killed in Israel attacks, as aid group reopens centres
AFP, The Jordan Times, June 6, 2025
FRANCE 24, RFI among 130 press groups calling for ‘immediate’ access to Gaza, journalist protection
France24, June 5, 2025
Number of aid workers killed in Gaza conflict, highest in UN history: Guterres
UN News, June 5, 2025
Mossad’s Former Chief Calls the War in Gaza ‘Useless’
Hana Rosin, The Atlantic, June 5, 2025
Citizen journalists are the eyes of Gaza’s people, says war reporter
UN News, June 4, 2025
Israel no longer has international legitimacy to conduct the war
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, June 2, 2025
Gaza doctor who lost nine children in Israeli airstrike dies from wounds in same attack
Lorenzo Tondo, Malak A Tantesh , The Guardian, June 1, 2025
Lettre de Liaison n° 139 – 5 mai 2025
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Lettre de Liaison n° 139
5 mai 2025
Brèves Avant de Partir
2 mai : « Purée ! je ne sais plus lire ! » s’exclame un ami kiné du Grand-Est, après réception de nos deux dernières Lettres. Il précise : « Je me rends compte, face à des pages, je ne comprends pas ce que je lis, d’entrée. Il faut que je reprenne, et là, ça revient… ça imprègne bien… Il faut que je me remette à lire !! »
Je lui demande sur quoi il lit : sur petit écran, 6 cm sur une douzaine, comme tout-le-monde.
Format d’un livre de poche : 11 cm / 18 cm. Feuille standard : 21 cm / 29 cm. Le Point : 20 cm / 26 cm. Format d’écran de cet ordinateur : 30 cm / 50 cm. Le Monde Diplo : 32 cm / 46.
Dernière Lettre de Liaison : 3.400 mots sur 6 pages 21/29. Vingt mille signes, espaces compris. 16.800 caractères.
Différence entre signe et caractère ? Un caractère, c’est une lettre ou un signe de ponctuation. Le signe, c’est l’unité de base de tout texte, y compris les caractères et les espaces entre les mots.
Dans Skype, le nombre maximum de caractères pour sms est de 70. Les SMS, on le sait, sont globalement limités à 160 caractères.
Cerveau formaté à 160 caractères maxi, comme seul mode d’échanges, tu en reçois d’un coup seize mille : cent fois plus. Au secours !
4 mai : Levé à 6h. Une heure d’infos de la nuit – The Times of Israel, The Jordan Times, Al Arabiya (Saudi), Egypt Today, Iraqi News, L’Orient Today (Liban), UN News, Ynet News (Israël), bref coup d’œil à la BBC…
On apprend que nous avons un nouveau pape. Les habits neufs de l’empereur. Ceci n’est pas une caricature. C’est de lui-même qu’il a fait créer cette image, à l’aide d’Intelligence Artificielle, pour la poster sur le site de la Maison Blanche, et son site personnel. Il y avait déjà eu la vidéo sur Gaza « la Riviera »…
Les deux photos d’en-tête. Elles ont été prises dans la mosquée historique de Naplouse, An-Nasser. Dévastée voici deux mois, dans la nuit du 6 au 7 mars, le huitième jour du Ramadan, par un incendie criminel : une patrouille de soldats l’a allumé, en jetant tous les livres de prière, tous les corans, sur les tapis et en y mettant le feu.
An-Nasser, c’est un peu le Sacré Cœur palestinien. Nous contons son histoire sur notre site :
https://messageriesdelapaix.org/index.php/2025/04/14/conversation-with-the-heart-of-nablus/
Naplouse, une des plus vieilles villes du monde, la couronne de Cisjordanie. An-Nasser, sa perle. Edifiée comme mosquée en 638, dans le cadre de l’islamisation de la ville par les conquérants religieux venus d’Arabie après la mort de Mahomet, reconstruite en tant qu’église byzantine, avec un dôme rouge, par les Templiers durant leur occupation de la Palestine, au début du douzième siècle. Redevenue mosquée à la fin du douzième siècle, après la victoire de Saladin sur les Croisés au lac de Tibériade… Le nom de Naplouse vient des Romains, qui l’ont fondée en 72, et baptisée Flavia Neapolis, Ville Nouvelle flavienne, dédiée à l’empereur Vespasien.
Pourquoi y avoir mis le feu juste avant l’aube du second vendredi de ramadan ?
Des dizaines de milliers de pèlerins, de croyants, étaient attendus sur l’Esplanade des Mosquées, à Jérusalem. Compte-tenu de l’outrage, la colère face à la profanation, ç’aurait pu être l’émeute. Remarquablement, l’énorme foule est restée calme. Le bain de sang n’a pas eu lieu.
An-Nasser se remet lentement de ses plaies. Tous les tapis ont été retirés, ce qui en restait. De nombreux volontaires sont venus, démonter les vitraux noirs de fumée, pour les laver, les reposer. Pour nettoyer la suie sur les murs, les étagères. Cet enfant de dix ans, au regard vieilli prématurément, est venu avec son petit revolver de plastique à la main. Dans l’autre main, un balai.
Sur le site, nous avons posté un raisonnement simple, et chiffré (voir le lien).
Quel est le pays au monde qui compte le plus d’armes par habitant ? Les Etats-Unis.
Quel est le pays au monde où les armes tuent le plus (autour de cinquante mille morts par an, plus de la moitié par suicide, une vingtaine de mille par homicide) ? Les Etats-Unis.
Quel est le pays au monde qui compte le plus de prisonniers derrière des barreaux ? Les Etats-Unis. Les armes sont un modèle de société américain – comme l’obésité (90 millions d’obèses)… 83 millions de personnes y possèdent au moins une arme (un adulte sur trois).
Quel est le pays au monde qui exporte le plus d’armes ? Les Etats-Unis. Avec 43% des exportations mondiales de 2020 à 2024, quatre fois plus que la France, qui se classe seconde, depuis 2022, grâce à « l’Ukraine ».
L’enfant de Naplouse aura-t-il accès à ces informations ?
Guerres à répétition, criminalité organisée : cherchez à qui profitent les crimes, la violence armée.
5 mai. Midi à sa fenêtre…
Levé à 5h. Un mail reçu me fait écho du temps qu’il fait. « Super ! Un printemps bien agréable !!! ».
Je lui réponds, « un missile est tombé hier dans la zone de l’aéroport où je dois atterrir après-demain : vols suspendus… A Gaza aucune nourriture n’est entrée depuis deux mois, c’est la famine ».
J’aurais pu ajouter aussi que les pires incendies de l’histoire d’Israël, il y a trois jours, ont coupé la route de l’aéroport à Jérusalem et dévasté toute la région autour de Neve Shalom-Wahat al Salam (le village emblématique, unique, de la coexistence israélo-palestinienne), et le monastère cistercien de Latroun en son sein, mais « trop d’infos tue l’info » disait l’autre…
Chacun voit midi à sa fenêtre… Encore ne faudrait-il pas que les dites fenêtres se réduisent, à son insu, en fenestrons… condamnés par de lourds rideaux d’indifférence et de jem’enfoutisme.
C’était fin avril : le hasard des lectures ouvertes, interconnectées, me remettait dans les pas, les pages de Victor Hugo. Ses Contemplations. Ainsi préfacées :
« Une destinée est écrite là jour à jour.
Est-ce donc la vie d’un homme ? Oui, et la vie des autres hommes aussi. Nul de nous n’a l’honneur d’avoir une vie qui soit à lui. Ma vie est la vôtre, votre vie est la mienne, vous vivez ce que je vis ; la destinée est une. Prenez donc ce miroir, et regardez-vous-y. On se plaint quelquefois des écrivains qui disent moi. Parlez-nous de nous, leur crie-t-on. Hélas ! Quand je vous parle de moi, je vous parle de vous. Comment ne le sentez-vous pas ? Ah ! insensé, qui crois que je ne suis pas toi ! »
Nos vies, et la vie des autres… Ma vie est la vôtre, la leur ; vous vivez, ils vivent dans le même monde ; nos destinées sont une. Prenez donc ce miroir, et regardez-vous y, vous m’y verrez, vous verrez, à peine plus flou, le visage de Massoud, affamé avec ses enfants, à Gaza ; le visage de Malik, 19 ans, qui m’écrit n’avoir jamais connu un seul moment de douceur dans son camp de Balata en Cisjordanie occupée ; le visage de Natan, octogénaire, doyen survivant de Nir Oz – où un habitant sur quatre fut kidnappé ou massacré le 7 octobre 2023.
Quand je vous parle d’eux, je vous parle de vous. Comment ne le sentez-vous pas ?
Premier weekend de mai. Vous aimez penser que ce qui se passe à Gaza, Nir Oz, Balata, cela ne vous regarde en rien, que c’est sans rapports avec ce que vous vivez… Mais ce gendre sexagénaire, qui s’emporte à répétition contre ses beaux-parents, ici, en France, et qui écourte brutalement avec sa femme le weekend qu’ils devaient leur consacrer – alors qu’ils sont, octogénaires avancés, l’un avec des béquilles, l’autre dans un fauteuil roulant ; tous ces couples qui se déchirent pour des vétilles…; toutes ces oppressions quotidiennes, banalisées, vous ne voyez donc pas que c’est la même barbarie qui est à l’œuvre, sourdement, et qui fait son nid, précisément, dans l’aveuglement systématique, la déshumanisation générale, la non-écoute de l’Autre, la non-concertation, le jugement permanent et son corollaire d’exclusion ?
Vous ne voyez donc pas que le mal est de même nature, en région parisienne, en Ille-et-Vilaine, en Lorraine, dans les colonies israéliennes de Cisjordanie, dans les banlieues syriennes – que c’est juste une question de degrés ?
Retour au 30 avril. La joie de donner.
Qu’est-ce qui nous rend le plus heureux, là où nous vivons ? N’est-ce pas, souvent, la qualité de certains rapports avec les autres, dans notre environnement ? Comme sur une échelle sismographique : certains rapports nous affaiblissent, nous fragilisent, nous détruisent, sur une échelle négative de 1 à 12 (pour les tremblements de terre). A l’inverse, il est des rapports qui nous enrichissent, nous comblent, nous exaltent même. On en sort réconfortés, réjouis, ravis de faire partie du même monde. Il existe un Rapport sur le Bonheur dans le Monde, réactualisé chaque année par des services de l’ONU : World Happiness Report. Une sorte de mesure du bonheur, fondée sur six critères à vocation universelle.
Dans le désordre : la liberté ; les moyens dont on dispose ; l’espérance de vie en bonne santé ; le soutien social dans l’environnement général ; la générosité ; la confiance (politique) dans les autorités, le gouvernement.
Sans surprise, les pays du Grand Nord viennent en tête : Finlande, Danemark, Islande, Suède, Hollande, Norvège… Australie, Nouvelle-Zélande sont 11ème et 12ème. Irlande, Belgique bivouaquent en 14ème et 15ème positions. L’Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni, les Etats-Unis se situent entre les 22ème et 24ème places. La France au 33ème rang, l’Italie au 40ème, le Portugal au 60ème. En fin de liste, encore sans surprise : le Bangla Desh, le Yémen, l’Afghanistan.
Le dernier film de Wim Wenders (2023), sur l’humble vie quotidienne d’un habitant de Tokyo, Perfect Days, parle de ça, de ces simples bonheurs arrachés au laminoir. Wim Wenders, Les Ailes du Désir, Buena Vista Social Club, Le Sel de la Terre…
Alors partir, oui, partir ailleurs, vers des pays mieux lotis, si on en a le goût, la force, les possibilités.
Sinon, faire son bonheur sur place. A la Hirayama ++ (Perfect Days). Offrir des fleurs à une personne aimée… Débarquer chez un ami avec croissants et viennoiseries… dans une famille précieuse avec une belle tarte aux fruits, fine de pâte croustillante, pauvre en crème, riche en fruits… Laisser un livre utile de Thich Nhat Hanh dans une boîte aux lettres… etc. Le plus vif moment de joie du mois dernier : avoir été capable d’envoyer cinq cents euros à une famille bien connue de Gaza, qui subissent le siège abominable de l’enclave depuis deux mois, à bout… Pouvoir retirer aussi la moitié de cette somme, « de sa poche », à convertir en un millier de shekels pour cette autre famille en Cisjordanie, qui a vu la soldatesque faire intrusion chez eux, tout y dévaster, et mitrailler leur fils sans défense, dans sa chambre… Solidaires des abandonnés jamais assez. Le don, antidote à l’abandon.
On a l’impression de prêcher, quand on entre sur ce terrain-là ? Trouvez mieux.
Sur le site World Happiness Report, ils partagent une étude sociologique sur les moyens de contribuer à la hausse des indicateurs de bien-être. De sept façons :
- Prendre soin des autres. Analyse globale du bonheur et de la bonté (kindness).
- Partager des repas avec les autres, renforcer les rapports de convivialité.
- Vivre avec autrui. Comment la taille d’une maisonnée et les liens familiaux importent.
- Entretenir des rapports réguliers avec autrui, de bonne entente, de solidarité.
- Soutenir les autres. Une attitude « prosociale » réduit les morts de désespoir.
- Faire confiance aux autres : le malheur et la méfiance sociale mènent aux populismes.
- Donner aux autres : Convertir votre argent en plus de bonheur pour autrui.
Nuit du 5 au 6 mai. Demain matin, lever un peu avant 4 h, pour prendre la route, puis l’avion. Si un nouveau missile du Yémen n’a pas impacté le périmètre de l’aéroport israélien, et si les compagnies aériennes n’ont pas annulé ou reporté leurs vols, comme hier… 6 mai au matin. Comme ils compliquent tout… Vol Transavia de demain annulé. « Malheureusement aucune alternative n’est disponible à la date sélectionnée » – ni à une date ultérieure, après vérification…
C’est la troisième fois en six mois qu’un de nos billets est annulé par la compagnie aérienne (irlandaise, puis française, maintenant hollandaise) « en raison de la situation ». Cela peut relever d’un boycott d’Israël comme destination, comme d’une réaction de plus en plus craintive des voyageurs face à un pays en guerre : à deux heures du matin cette nuit, au moment de s’enregistrer en ligne, et de choisir un siège, les deux tiers des places étaient vides, et les sièges hublots, offerts à zéro euro. L’enregistrement alors s’est interrompu. Six heures après, le vol était annulé. (A Suivre)