On Sunday, nine days after the cease-fire took effect in Gaza, medical staff from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Al Aqsa hospital, Gaza, received 70 patients with blast injuries from Israeli airstrikes. MSF medical staff in Nasser hospital treated a patient shot by an Israeli quadcopter. Staff in one of MSF’s field hospitals in Deir al Balah received 18 patients with blast injuries. The U.N. Department of Safety and Security, which monitors security threats in humanitarian contexts such as Gaza, recorded at least five areas hit by airstrikes across the Strip.

These attacks, which came less than two weeks after Israel and Hamas agreed to halt hostilities and began exchanging Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees, left MSF colleagues in Gaza shocked and frightened that they presaged a return to the appalling violence that has killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians and injured more than twice that number over the last two years, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

As the attacks were ongoing, so was a parallel exchange of accusations, denials, and access reversals. Over a 24-hour period, Israel revoked, then reinstated its decision to close the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. The Kerem Shalom and Kissufim crossings have since been reopened, but Rafah is still........

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