Day 273 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

The murder study records Saudi Arabian irregulars under Egyptian command shooting unarmed officers after landing. Failed advance notice of their flight did not excuse that later act. Egyptian soldiers’ rescue attempt and reported wounds identify different conduct within forces present at the airfield. ¹

A/648 and PAL/277 give August 28; indexed S/994 text gives August 29. The unavailable scans and a later supplementary 29 Augustrecord require further comparison. One event remains linked from both recaps where the discrepancy matters, with one standalone chronology item and one pair of fatalities. ^{2 3}

A/648 separately lists Captain Henri Tors wounded while on duty in ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM on August 28. That casualty list does not identify an attacker or full circumstances. The Gaza deaths, wounded Egyptian rescuers and Tors’s wound cannot be combined into a single engagement. ⁴

Later reportage is linked to the incident it describes. Its September release date does not create a new murder on the publication day.

This is Day 273 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-08-28. The public daytime slot is כ״ג באב ה׳תש״ח 23rd 𝑜𝑓 Av, AM 5708, derived by fixed Hebrew-calendar conversion. After local sunset the Hebrew date is כ״ד באב ה׳תש״ח 24th 𝑜𝑓 Av, AM 5708; this civil-day recap does not impose its daytime route on every incident it discusses. ⁵ The observer murders remain dated August 28/29 in conflicting UN records; their standalone article preserves that conflict.

• How can a reporting-date conflict be retained without double-counting the murdered observers?
• Why must Henri Tors’s wound remain separate from the Gaza killings?