Dead, Pending Resurrections

The Israeli Defense Force has notified a soldier's family of his probable death. During a training exercise, a soldier probably drowned in the Jordan River.

I'm just trying to imagine getting a phone call saying, "Your son is probably dead, but stay tuned."

More certainly, an IDF photographer died and two medics were wounded in a stiff fight in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. The Israelis were destroying a few homes and smuggling tunnels under the Egyptian border. Four Palestinian Hamas operatives and one fourteen-year-old boy were killed and thirty other Palestinians were wounded.

It's been a long time since anyone said "hope".