Benny, an Israeli sniper in the Nahal Brigade, told Haaretz that he had killed so many children he had lost count: “I fire 50-60 bullets every day, I’ve stopped counting kills. I have no idea how many I’ve killed, a lot. Children.”

Every day, Benny is given the same mission to “secure the humanitarian aid” in the north of Gaza.

His day starts at 3:30 in the morning. He sets up a sniper position, covered by drones and armoured vehicles, and then waits.

The aid trucks arrive between 7:30 and 8:30 and begin unloading their contents. As they do, a massive crowd of starving Palestinians push forward to gain a place in the queue. They don’t know it, but there is an unseen line ahead of them.

“A line that if they cross, I can shoot them,” Benny said.

“It is like a game of cat and mouse,” he said. “They try to come from a different way every time, and I am there with the sniper rifle, and the officers are shouting at me, ‘Take it down, take it down.’”