One of the few universal rules with no known exceptions is that the surefire way to get wall-to-wall coverage of your conflict is to have the Jews as your enemy. A real genocide in western China or in Ethiopia can never compete with an imaginary one invented by Westerners to tarnish Israel’s reputation.

But there’s another reason to prefer Israel as your enemy in battle, as the current war demonstrates.

Over the weekend, CBS’s 60 Minutes ran a feature on Israel’s pager attack against Hezbollah in September, in which thousands of Israeli-detonated beepers held by Hezbollah operatives exploded simultaneously.

“Using dummies, Mossad conducted tests with the pager in a padded glove to calibrate the grams of explosive needed to be just enough to hurt the fighter, but not the person next to him,” Lesley Stahl says as viewers see a demonstration of such a test on the screen.

It’s no surprise that the plot, which unfolded over a number of years and required creating and marketing a new product and then enticing Hezbollah to buy it, was precise in every detail. “Mossad also tested these ringtones to find a sound urgent enough to compel someone to take it out of their pocket,” Stahl reports, as a medley of beeper tunes plays. “And they tested how long it takes a person to answer a pager—on average, seven seconds.”

But the fact that that precision included shielding civilians from thousands of blasts miles away is remarkable. As security-camera footage of some of the pager explosions shows on the screen, Stahl says: “Watch the man on the left. Those standing next to him were unscathed.”

This level of care and precision was on display in late July as well. When Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by an explosive device planted in his room in Tehran, his next-door neighbor—the head of fellow Gazan terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad—was unharmed.

The salient point is that this care is standard practice for Israel. On the same day that CBS ran its feature on the pager plot, Jewish News Syndicate published a story by Yaakov Lappin on how Israeli military planners have rearranged aid routes into Gaza to help the convoys avoid looters.

Hamas has turned the hijackings into a lucrative lifeline: The terror group (as well as other criminal gangs in Gaza) seize aid trucks and resell the food and goods on the open market at marked-up prices, inflating the cost of living for everyone in the Strip during wartime. Hamas also murders those trying to collect or distribute aid if they aren’t affiliated with Hamas. So while aid has been flowing throughout the war, securing such aid inside Gaza remains a challenge.

Hamas’s strategy is to get rich taking advantage of some Gazans while intentionally starving others. (All while Israel gets the blame.) But these new routes are improving the situation, Lappin reports: “Over some 10 days, 400 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip in four convoys of 100 trucks each, following routes along the IDF-controlled Philadelphi Corridor and the Gaza-Israel border road. This initiative has markedly decreased hijackings by Hamas terrorists and criminal gangs, meaning that more aid is reaching Gazan civilians, according to the IDF.”

Of course, that puts Israel’s critics at odds with what’s best for Palestinian civilians, since an Israeli withdrawal would make it impossible for Palestinians to get food and medicine reliably: Hamas would steal it and hoard it or sell it at prices few could afford.

And yet, we should not gloss over the fact that we are having this conversation at all. Throughout the war, even as it remains active to this day, Israel is supplying the territory ruled by the government that started this war by invading Israel and purposefully bringing the war back to Gaza by kidnapping hundreds.

Col. Richard Kemp, a retired British army officer who served in Afghanistan and who has spent years countering the false narratives about Israel in the press, was a guest on a recent episode of the Jewish National Fund’s podcast. Kemp reiterated the point, and leaves us with words worth thinking about: “This is the first time in history that I’m aware of when an armed force has facilitated aid deliveries into its enemy population while fighting at the same time. And they get criticized for this, but [the Israelis] have done a phenomenal job and have, I think, by their immense efforts, including things like opening new checkpoints into Gaza, building new roads inside Gaza specifically for aid deliveries, they’ve saved many lives of Gazan civilians.”