Despite the pauses, Israeli forces have killed at least 53 Palestinians in attacks on Gaza since the early hours of Sunday, as six more Palestinians starve to death. They have seized the Freedom Flotilla’s Handala ship, detaining its 21 crew members, as they attempted to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip.

In Gaza, nearly every conversation these days starts with the same question. When did you eat last?

“I don’t know what you would call it other than mass starvation, and it’s man-made, and that’s very clear,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference Wednesd...