Hospitals were overwhelmed with casualties, many of whom had been maimed.

In the Indian state of West Bengal, children are routinely maimed, blinded, or killed by home-made bombs.

Maj Lipsky acknowledges the civilian suffering in Gaza and does not deny the imagery of dead and maimed women and children.

But doctors warn that such “button batteries” can maim and kill.

Not to bring the mood down too much, but the stories are piling up of women killed or maimed because of abortion bans.