New Delhi, July 10 -- GAZA - Ahmad Nasser Saleem was driving near the Karam Abu Salem crossing when the strike came. He was behind the wheel of a World Central Kitchen vehicle - one of the most recognizable in Gaza, painted in colors that are supposed to signal civilian status. It was Wednesday. By Thursday, the Gaza Ministry of Health had confirmed that ten Palestinians had been killed in the preceding 24 hours in Israeli strikes across the territory. Saleem was one of them.

"Humanitarian aid deliveries should never be a target," World Central Kitchen said in a statement after his death. The condemnation was the latest in a sequence that has become both necessary and insufficient. WCK lost seven aid workers in a single Israeli strike on...