Okay, here we go. Mind the chaos and the imperfections:
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So, like, okay, there’s this weekly something-or-other called the Editor’s Digest that apparently you can unlock for free? Woo! Thanks, FT Editor Roula Khalaf, whoever you are, for picking your fave stories.
Anyway, let’s dive into the real nitty-gritty. The Israeli military’s in hot water once again. “Professional failures,” they said. Huge understatement if you ask me. They’ve admitted they’ll sack some officer because, I kid you not, they shot 15 emergency workers in Southern Gaza. Totally unarmed, by the way. And then they went and squashed their vehicles, even a UN car. Just buried the poor souls when they were done. Yikes.
It’s being called a “massacre” by the Palestine Red Crescent Society – they lost eight people in this mess. Meanwhile, Volker Türk from the UN is raising some serious flags about potential war crimes. Heavy stuff, right?
Oh, and the Israeli military’s playing a weird game of telephone, constantly updating its tale. First, it was, “We thought they were sneaky suspicious, no lights, no signals.” But surprise! A dead paramedic’s cellphone video popped up and, boom, evidence shows the vehicles were definitely marked and had their lights a-blazing.
So now what? An officer gets a “bad, bad officer, think about what you did” note, and the deputy commander? Well, he’s out. Major-General Yoav Har-Even, who’s kind of the sheriff trying to make sense of this, said there were “mistakes.” Uh-huh.
They shot some ambulances and a fire truck, thinking all were bad guys in disguise. Then hit up a UN vehicle too. It’s like a tragic slapstick comedy of errors. Oh wait, there were no weapons, and no one had a gun, oops?
Six of the folks were supposedly Hamas militants, but no names, no receipts offered. They even got it wrong about some guy named Mohammad Shubaki. He wasn’t even in the roll call of the deceased. Talk about a clerical error.
Also, apparently, there’s a surviving paramedic being held by Israel. Why? Who really knows, because they’re not saying.
Meanwhile, Gaza is just… devastated. Over 51,000 dead, they say. It’s chaos. All sparked by Hamas doing their grim October showdown, killing, and abducting folks. It’s a whirlwind of madness as usual down there. Just a brutal cycle.
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There you go. Rough around the edges but with a heartbeat.
