Israel to bar 37 aid groups as UK and EU warn of severe impact in Gaza

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: Many in Gaza to 'Lose Access to Critical Medical Care' as Israel Suspends Doctors Without Borders

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Source: BBC

Israel to bar 37 aid groups as UK and EU warn of severe impact in Gaza

31 December 2025

Amy Walker and David Gritten

Israel is to revoke the licences of 37 international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, saying they failed to meet requirements under new registration rules.

ActionAid, International Rescue Committee, Médecins Sans Frontières and Norwegian Refugee Council are among the aid agencies which will have their licences suspended on 1 January, with their operations to end within 60 days.

Israel said they had, among other things, failed to hand over "complete" personal details of their staff. The INGOs said that could put them at risk.

The move was condemned by 10 countries, which said the rules would have a severe impact on access to essential services.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1evp7weyv2o

Alternate link: https://archive.ph/NcSmZ

[AloeVera]

1. So fucking Israel created a new rule that it knew many NGO's could not or would not comply with.

As their first priority is protecting their own staff. They are fully cognizant, many from bitter experience, of what Israel is capable of. To wit the hundreds of aid workers, doctors, nurses etc. already murdered.

Every action taken by Israel since Day 1 - especially the malicious destruction of the major aid agency UNRWA, based on bogus or non-existent evidence - was meticulously planned in order to destroy and isolate Palestinians from outside, independent help. Or, as in the case of UNRWA, to destroy Palestinians' ability to help themselves. Removing their refugee status is another goal.

Helplessness, dependence, fear and despair coupled with barbaric, medieval deprivation and suffering is what Israel wants for Palestinians. When they reach the limits of their endurance, they will be shipped off to dirt-poor breakaway Somaliland where they will fade away in poverty and obscurity.

We are witnessing the total destruction of a people. History does repeat and imperialism and its supremacist, classist, racist ideology and hunger for native lands and resources is alive and well. If it were not, none of this would have been tolerated. But it was, which makes all of our leaders in the West complicit.

[Bayard]

3. Well said

No one is entitled to "complete" personal details," of another person, and certainly not any government.

Next step--Give refuges unwashed blankets that smallpox victims have used, like our own government did to Indigenous people here in the U.S.