All 40 deaths can be traced back to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist organisations taking these people hostage in the first place. Having established this important fact, which should have been the starting point of Diamond's framing, let's examine the “24/40” figure he is throwing around. By CNN’s own breakdown, 11 hostages were accidentally killed by Israeli strikes or troops (friendly fire) during a military operation that began because Hamas launched a war against Israel and fought it while hiding behind both Gazan non-combatants and the hostages. Nearly half were murdered by their Hamas captors, either directly or through prolonged suffering, deprivation and denial of medical care, while the circumstances surrounding eight deaths remain unknown. Diamond arrives at 24 by stretching the definition of deaths “traced back to Israeli military actions” to include hostages executed by Hamas because Israeli forces were approaching, often without knowing the hostages were there, and even cases where the cause of death remains uncertain. Again, these circumstances are relevant to a legitimate debate about the risks of military pressure, but they are very different from implying, as Diamond's framing does and as other, more nefarious voices will undoubtedly exploit, that Israel killed 24 hostages. If a kidnapper murders his hostage when police close in, the police operation may form part of the causal chain. But the murderer is still the kidnapper, who made the deliberate decision to execute his captive. Blurring the distinction between hostages accidentally killed by Israeli fire and those deliberately murdered by Hamas as Israeli forces approached does more than mislead readers about what happened. It shifts moral agency from the captors who chose to execute their hostages onto the state attempting to rescue them. It turns a legitimate debate about the risks and consequences of military pressure into a distorted claim about responsibility. Diamond has a responsibility to report these distinctions carefully, particularly on an issue as sensitive as the deaths of hostages. His framing, both in his tweet and in the CNN piece, failed to meet that responsibility.