IN GAZA, AS IN LEBANON, DEATH ALWAYS CALLS TWICE

Two phone calls within a few days of each other: the first to warn the person concerned that they had been identified as a target worthy of death, and the second to inform them that their time had come. Just a few minutes were allowed to say goodbye to family members and innocent bystanders before being killed.
Describing this ‘fair play’ of the Israeli army is journalist Nabih Bulos of the Los Angeles Times, who recounts the final minutes of Ahmad Turmus’s life last February. Turmus, a Lebanese man and one of many victims of Israel’s armed might, was subjected to the torture of the ‘death call’.
In a first call, he was warned that his fate had been decided and that a drone would kill him.
Turmus, aged 62, lived in Tallusah, a small Shiite village in southern Lebanon, on the border with Israel. On 16 February, he received the second call. On the other end of the line, someone identified themselves as an Israeli intelligence officer and asked: “Ahmad, do you want to die with the people around you or alone?”
His family later recounted that they heard Turmus utter just one word: “Alone”. He then hurried out of the house, got into his car and drove away from his home and the village. Thirty seconds later, an Israeli drone struck the car.

Israeli technology is so advanced and sophisticated that it is immune to error and delivers nothing but certainty, even when it comes to daily ‘death calls’.
Given Israel’s political and technological prowess, the far-sighted Italian government has seen fit to entrust its cybersecurity to Israel under a paid contract, thereby handing itself over to Israel, lock, stock and barrel.