On the same day that Israeli F-35s launched missiles to kill several senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officers meeting in the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, an Israeli drone killed an Australian aid worker and six of her colleagues delivering food to Palestinians in northern Gaza.

In the Syrian operation, precise intelligence was used against secretive, high-value targets in a foreign country’s capital. In Gaza, by contrast, a clearly marked aid convoy was attacked in benign circumstances and the aid workers killed, for no apparent reason.

A photo that Zomi Frankcom sent her family just before her death this week.

When it wants to, Israel can launch a highly precise strike against sensitive targets at the same time as minimising civilian casualties. In January, for example, an Israeli missile smashed into a third-floor apartment in Beirut’s southern suburbs and killed Saleh Arouri, Hamas’ deputy political chief. Clean, precise. But in Gaza,........

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