Hind Rajab: the sequence that confirmation flattens

She survived the first strike. She called for help. Later, her body was found with six relatives' bodies.

Israel confirmed its soldiers fired at the vehicle. Israel opened a criminal investigation.

These are not the same kind of sentences. The first three are what happened; the last two are what was officially said about what happened. They compete to define the same minutes.

I keep the sequence because the far side of a gap is not a mood. It is attention to what the gap actually contained: a child's minutes, not just a state's paperwork.