Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Israeli government has begun steps to revoke the operating licenses of several international organizations in Gaza and the West Bank.
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday that the move targets more than 10 international NGOs.
The list includes Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), Save the Children, CARE International, the Norwegian Refugee Council, World Vision, Oxfam, and the International Rescue Committee.
The report said a joint ministerial team leads the process. Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and the Fight Against Antisemitism heads the effort.
Israeli authorities have sent official letters to the organizations. The letters state that Israel will cancel their licenses on January 1. They order all activities to end by March 1, 2026.
Israel claims the organizations failed to complete legal registration requirements.
Some organizations reportedly refused to meet a key Israeli demand. The demand requires full lists of Palestinian employees for what Israel calls "security screening."
Israeli authorities claimed security investigations linked employees of Doctors Without Borders to "terrorist activities." They provided no evidence to support the allegation.
In September, Israeli magazine +972 reported that Israel seeks full control over humanitarian work in Gaza and the West Bank.
The report said a new mechanism forces organizations to choose between protecting staff and continuing aid.
The magazine said the measures pose an existential threat to dozens of NGOs. Many of them have worked for decades to support Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
Under the new rules, Israel can ban any organization it accuses of "delegitimizing" the state.
Israel can also block NGOs that employed anyone who supported boycotts in the past seven years.
The report said NGOs fear that handing over staff names puts Palestinian employees at risk. It warned of surveillance, pressure, and retaliation, especially in Gaza.
According to +972, Israel aims to dismantle the current humanitarian aid model. It added that Israel seeks to replace it with a system that serves its political agenda.
Israel has taken similar steps against UNRWA.
In 2024, the Knesset passed a law banning the agency's activity in Israel.
Israel claimed some UNRWA staff took part in October 7, 2023 events but did not provide evidence.
In mid-December, the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee approved a draft decision.
The decision blocks water and electricity from reaching UNRWA facilities.
Extreme cold kills 25 Gazans, including children, in December amid Israeli aid obstruction
Lede: More than two dozen people have died in the Gaza Strip as a winter storm threatens the lives of nearly 900,000 Palestinians living in tents across the devastated coastal territory, with Israeli forces hampering aid deliveries and exacerbating the humanitarian condition.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing Gaza's Civil Defense and rescue teams, reported that 25 people, including six children, have died this month from hypothermia following rains and plunging temperatures.
According to reports, Gaza had not experienced severe weather conditions marked by heavy rainfall, strong winds, and extreme cold prior to the current month of December.
Eighteen residential buildings, already damaged by Israeli shelling, completely collapsed due to harsh weather conditions and intense rainfall during the same period.
Over 110 residential buildings sustained severe partial collapses, which endangered the lives of thousands of residents living inside or near these structures.
Meanwhile, 90 percent of displacement tents in the Gaza Strip were flooded or blown away by heavy rains and strong winds, leaving thousands of families without temporary shelter. This disaster also led to the loss of their few possessions, such as clothes, blankets, and bedding, further aggravating their already dire humanitarian situation.
Intense weather conditions are adding to the hardships faced by displaced Palestinians in Gaza, who have endured ongoing bombardments, a crippling siege, and immense losses during more than two years of Israel's genocidal war.
Israel persists in breaching the ceasefire agreement and obstructing essential humanitarian aid from reaching the war-stricken coastal sliver, even though these provisions being outlined in the initial phase of the accord.
Flimsy tents were submerged, and improvised camps were engulfed by mud on Monday after heavy winter rains battered the territory over the past few days.
Local officials in Gaza have advised against seeking refuge in damaged buildings; however, the tents provide minimal shelter from the heavy rainfall and offer no effective defense against flooding.
Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 71,266 Palestinians and wounded 171,222 others since October 2023.
Israel to ban dozens of aid agencies from Gaza as 10 nations warn about suffering
Note how the headline centers the "failure" of the agencies to comply and not the apartheid state imposing these ridiculous restrictions as the problem and then they tag on a mealy-mouthed "...say israeli officials" to make it factually accurate.
Israel to ban dozens of aid agencies from Gaza as 10 nations warn about suffering
Failure of groups including MSF and ActionAid to hand over staff details means they will not be able to operate in Gaza, say Israeli officials
Israel has announced it will stop dozens of aid organisations working in Gaza within 36 hours for failing to meet stringent new requirements to hand over personal details of Palestinian and international staff deployed in the devastated territory.
The list of groups hit by the ban include some of the world’s best known humanitarian organisations such as ActionAid, International Rescue Committee and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Tuesday’s announcement by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs comes amid fierce storms that in recent days have destroyed thousands of tents in Gaza, exacerbating an already acute humanitarian crisis.
Foreign ministers of 10 nations expressed “serious concerns” about a “renewed deterioration of the humanitarian situation” in the devastated territory, saying the situation was “catastrophic”.
“As winter draws in, civilians in Gaza are facing appalling conditions with heavy rainfall and temperatures dropping,” the ministers of Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland said in a joint statement released by the UK’s Foreign Office on Tuesday.
The statement added that “1.3 million people still require urgent shelter support. More than half of health facilities are only partially functional and face shortages of essential medical equipment and supplies. The total collapse of sanitation infrastructure has left 740,000 people vulnerable to toxic flooding” .
The ministers called for the UN and its partners to continue their work in Gaza, and for the lifting of “unreasonable [Israeli] restrictions on imports considered to have a dual use”.
Hundreds of items have been blocked by Israel from entering Gaza on the basis that they may be used by Hamas to rebuild tunnels or for military purposes. The items include some vitally needed medical and shelter equipment.
The ministers also called for the opening of crossings to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying that corridors for moving goods remained closed or severely restricted for humanitarian aid, including Rafah, the biggest entry point that leads directly to Egypt.
“Bureaucratic customs processes and extensive screenings are causing delays, while commercial cargo is being allowed in more freely,” the statement said.
“The target of 4,200 trucks per week, including an allocation of 250 UN trucks per day, should be a floor not a ceiling. These targets should be lifted so we can be sure the vital supplies are getting in at the vast scale needed,” it added.
Under the 20-point agreement that allowed a fragile ceasefire to come into effect in October, Israel is obliged to allow “full aid” to be “immediately sent into Gaza”.
The ceasefire ended two years of relentless conflict, but further progress towards a lasting peace deal has stalled, with Israel saying it will not withdraw from the 53% of Gaza territory that is still under its control until Hamas disarms and returns the remains of the last hostage it is holding. The Islamist militant organisation has so far refused to commit to full disarmament.
Speaking on Monday, Donald Trump said that he hoped “reconstruction” could begin soon in the Palestinian territory, reduced to ruins by Israeli offensives in response to Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attacks, but gave no details.
Israeli officials said they had given ample warning to aid organisations about the new registration requirements and that about 15% of nongovernmental organisations working in Gaza had not had their permits renewed.
“Humanitarian organisations that fail to meet security and transparency requirements will have their licences suspended,” the ministry said, adding that those that “refused to submit a list of their Palestinian employees in order to rule out any links to terrorism” had received formal notice that their licences would be revoked as of 1 January.
NGO officials have previously said that the new requirements clashed with European data protection legislation, and could endanger their staff.
In its statement on Tuesday, the Israeli ministry alleged that an investigation had found that MSF employed two individuals with links to Palestinian militant groups: an alleged sniper with Hamas and a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
MSF said it “would never knowingly employ people engaging in military activity”.
The ministry’s statement did not say whether MSF’s licence had been revoked.
“In terms of registration, MSF continues to engage and discuss with Israeli authorities,” the NGO said. “We have not yet received a decision on reregistration.”
The allegations against MSF echo those made by Israel against Unrwa, the main UN agency working with Palestinians in the region.
A law passed on Monday in Israel will force electricity and water companies, communications providers and banks to cut Unrwa off from any services. Previous laws stopped the agency from operating in Israel and ended all government contact.
The international court of justice, the UN’s highest court, cleared Unrwa of the allegation that it was not impartial.
Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli agency responsible for the administration of Gaza and the occupied West Bank, said that the organisations whose operations in Gaza will now be suspended had not supplied the territory with any aid since the ceasefire that came into effect in October, and had only contributed about 1% of the total aid volume previously.
“Accordingly, the implementation of the government decision will not result in any future harm to the volume of humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip,” it said.
Other major organisations whose permits have not been renewed include Care International, and divisions of major charities such as Oxfam and Caritas, according to a list from the ministry. All help provide a variety of social services, including food distribution, healthcare, disability services, education and mental health.
The ministry said the groups were given 10 months to provide the requested information but “nonetheless failed to comply with the requirements”.
Oxfam’s policy lead in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Bushra Khalidi, told Reuters that its Palestinian staff and partners would continue supporting communities but said forcing aid agencies to rely on obtaining supplies locally – as they will not be permitted to bring in goods from outside – was part of a wider dismantling of the humanitarian aid system.
The ministry said that by late November approximately 100 registration requests had been submitted and “only 14 organisation requests have been rejected”.
“The remainder have been approved or are currently under review,” it added.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
on December 31, 2025, 5:38 am