New Delhi, July 12 -- CAIRO - The committee assembled to govern Gaza after the genocide has not been allowed inside. The recruits for its police force were rejected. The billions pledged for reconstruction sit in international accounts, unspent. Nine months after the ceasefire that ended the deadliest phase of the killing, the obstacle to rebuilding Gaza is not a shortage of funds or international will. It is a governance deadlock that Israel shows no sign of resolving.

The National Committee for Administration of Gaza, known as the NCAG, was assembled precisely to sidestep the most intractable political arguments. Composed of Palestinian technocrats unaffiliated with Hamas or the Palestinian Authority, it was designed to manage civilian...