In southern Lebanon, where daily life intersects with the threat of sudden death, heroic stories of selflessness and courage unfold. Stories like that of Ahmed Turmos, who faced his fate with rare courage, remind us of a harsh reality in which the youth of the South live under constant threat, and highlight an indescribable human resilience in the face of death.
Journalist Radwan Murtada narrated, through his own account on He answered immediately: “For now.”
In the details written by Mortada: Yesterday, in the town of Taloussa, the martyr Ahmed Termus (62 years old) was on a family visit. He sat with his wife at her brother’s house. The sound of a drone in the sky, then a second drone. No sooner had he entered to sit down than his phone rang. Ahmed replied. The voice came to him, cold and clear: With us is Ahmed Turmos? He answered yes, and the caller told him: “The Israeli army is with you, Ahmed. Do you and those with you want to die…or alone?” He answered immediately: “On my own. I hung up the phone.” His face changed. His brother-in-law, Salim, looked at him and asked him: “What happened, Ahmed?” He said it with decisive calm: “This is the horror of the Israelis. Get up and leave me here. They are saying, ‘You will die with me… or I will die alone.’”
Mortada added: “He did not beg. He did not scream. He asked them to go out, to be saved, to leave him facing fate alone. They refused at first and told him that they would not leave him, and that they would die with him. He calmed them down, then convinced them to leave. For a moment he did not notice that he was not in his house. Then he noticed. He did not want death to be in a house that was not his own. He decided to take death away from them. He asked them to stay so that he could leave. He bid them farewell. He went up to He started his car and drove away from the house, then parked his car. After a few seconds, the drone fired two missiles, burning the car.
Mortada continued: “Ahmed’s body was scattered. He was burned… but his story remains. He is one of the heroes of our days. Ahmed bid farewell to his son Hassan as a martyr two years ago. Then he saw him in a dream about a year ago, telling him that he would meet him in February. He told his daughter-in-law about that, and she jokingly replied: Does that mean the war will continue after a year?! I mean, five years later. He replied to her that his son had set next February. Someone filmed him repeating that he would be martyred in February, and then today the people of “His town is sharing that video, just as they were sharing the conversation on WhatsApp.”
He said: “No one knows what a person feels when he receives a call informing him of the time of his death. No one knows how life is weighed in seconds, and then he is asked to choose: to die alone… or for his loved ones to die with him. What heart can bear a call that gives him the choice of how he will die and part with his loved ones? What fortitude, what courage, and what altruism do these people have to be able to simply stand on their feet at such a moment?”
He also narrated about another young man before Ahmed and wrote: “Before Ahmed, another young man was driving his car with his wife next to him. He received the same call. He stopped the car. He put his wife down. He drove her away. Then he went alone towards the missile. Examples that are repeated in the south. A connection that separates life from death. Young men walking to their death with steady feet… I can only ask: Where is our state in all of this? Where is the state that claims that through diplomacy it will protect our youth? What is it doing to stop this?”
He concluded: “Every crime committed against these young people, day after day, reinforces one fact… the legitimacy of resistance as the only option after all paths have been blocked. How cruel this time is… and its positions are clear. I hesitated before writing. I did not know if it would work in the face of the horror of what is happening. I asked myself: Will this be a defeat… or a deepening of sadness that we cannot repel? Then I saw that our voice and our words might be a form of steadfastness in the face of the Israeli killing machine. What These are the most noble martyrs. Indeed, pride begins with the remains of our dead.”
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