The notion of the fog of war has given way to the sharp, instant imagery of war. There’s no escape, no averting of eyes. Every terrible scene of the devastation in Gaza is immediately translated into every mobile phone and TV screen around the world.

The scenes of human carnage from the explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital car park are immediately engraved on global consciousness – just as the grim pictures of dead, wounded and terrified Israeli men, women and children were on October 7.