On July 26, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz ran this headline: “Israel at war day 659. Gaza medical sources: At least 25 killed by Israeli gunfire, some while waiting for aid.”

If you had been following this Gaza story closely, you would know that Haaretz was running a similar headline almost every day for weeks — only the number of Palestinians killed while waiting for food aid handed out by Israel in the Gaza Strip changed. As I watched these stories pile up, the thought occurred to me that roughly a month earlier Israel had managed to assassinate 10 senior Iranian military officials and 16 nuclear scientists sitting in their homes and offices. So, how was it that Israel had the capacity to destroy pinpoint targets in Iran, some 1200 miles from Tel Aviv, and could not safely deliver boxes of food to starving Gaza residents 40 miles from Tel Aviv?