Sorry to those weary. But the horror in Gaza churns on, and we can’t look away. Israel’s emblematic killing of three of their own – pleading in Hebrew – is one awful sliver. Add killing 109 members of one extended family, a mother and daughter in a Catholic church, a 12-year-old being treated for an amputated leg; hospitals already a “bloodbath” stormed, bombed, its medical staff detained; hunger, hubris, lies; broken children pulling friends from rubble, and “human cruelties (too) intolerable to utter aloud.”

“There is nowhere for flesh to hide in Gaza; nothing with a pulse is spared,” writes one appalled observer. “Explosions merge into one another, and vibrant lives are burned, mangled and turned into unidentifiable carnage.” In this “war against defenseless civilians” whose death toll now creeps up to 20,000 – now 19,667, 70% women and children – it was perhaps foreseeable Israeli soldiers would eventually kill three captives “mistakenly identified as a threat.” What made it shocking was the revelation that Yotam Haim, Samar Al Talalka and Alon Shamriz, men in their 20s from Kibbutz Kfar Azza and Hura, were deliberately shirtless to show they were unarmed, shouting “Help us”

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