weapons

One of campaigners' main concerns in regards to landmines is the danger these weapons present to civilians, killing indiscriminately as they are buried underground or scattered on the surface.

A UK-based monitoring group put the death toll at 41 and reported that the strikes hit a warehouse used to store weapons and homes inhabited by families of Iran-backed militia fighters.

Indeed, as Zeldovich writes, “These phages might be our best weapons against the next bacterial pandemics.”

The tactics used at the time — deforestation and afforestation, cutting off water supplies, raids on Palestinian communities — are still being applied today, with the addition of 21st-century weapons and a far more sophisticated state apparatus.

The Home Office said the scheme had taken dangerous weapons "off our streets" and that compensation claims had "undergone stringent review".