“Your government wants you to believe that the whole world is conspiring against you, that the Palestinian people are terrorists, that the UN is filled with terrorist and terrorist supporters, that your closest allies are your enemies,” the message read out by Riyad Mansour began.

“Do not believe them!” he urged.

He went on to speak of the demand from the Israeli radical government — including its foreign minister (currently Gideon Sa’ar, but Israel Katz of the Likud last year was hardly better) — to ‘de-radicalise’ Palestinian society, having already dehumanised a whole people as “human animals” and “children of darkness”.

“They want you to believe that your survival depends on your ability to continuously wage wars,” Mansour continued, “including against a defenceless civilian population — half of whom are children; on their erasure.”

The children in Gaza number 1 million, he reminded his audience.

He went on to ask whether this — the decimation of these children and their civilian families — was what the Israeli people really wanted from their government and their military.

Mansour pointed out that the whole world was watching as the Netanyahu government hoped the citizens of Israel would “filter out, deny or justify” the atrocities.