The latest crime scene in Gaza is shockingly illustrative of how Israel murders civilians, targets medics and covers up its crimes - and of how western media collude in downplaying such atrocities, helping Israel to ensure that the extent of the death toll in Gaza will never be properly known.

As the story broke on Monday, the BBC’s News at Ten gave over its schedule to a bin strike by workers in Birmingham; fears about the influence of social media prompted by a Netflix drama, Adolescence; bad weather on a Greek island; the return to Earth of stranded Nasa astronauts; and Britain’s fourth political party claiming it would do well in next month’s local elections.

All of that pushed out any mention of Israel’s latest war crime in Gaza.

Presumably under pressure from its ordinary journalists - who are known to be in near-revolt over the state broadcaster’s persistent failure to cover Israeli atrocities in Gaza - the next day’s half-hour evening news belatedly dedicated 30 seconds to the item, near the end of the running order.