Why Aid Is Crucial to the Gaza Cease-fire

What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?

On Friday, October 10, when Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire in Gaza, I heard from a Palestinian friend in the Strip. Gaza had been celebrating since the news broke, but grief was never far away. “Our feelings are mixed,” he wrote: Yes, we are relieved that the genocide has stopped, even though we […]

Why Aid Is Crucial to the Gaza Cease-fire

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 se…