“This is an important step on the path to justice” – so read the statement of Hamas, following the announcement of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it had issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister and Mohammed Deif, the deceased Hamas terrorist. Quite how the chief prosecutor of the ICC intends to arrest Deif’s corpse and put it in the stand at The Hague is anyone’s guess. Perhaps the ICC does have jurisdiction in hell.

We’ve reached an astonishing new low when an international court, which claims to uphold international law and human rights, has found common cause with a terrorist organisation that just over a year ago perpetrated the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust on its gratuitous rampage of murder, torture, kidnapping and rape.