{"id":311062,"date":"2026-01-05T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=311062"},"modified":"2026-01-01T06:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:24:24","slug":"israel-bans-dozens-of-aid-groups-from-operating-in-gaza-including-doctors-without-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/01\/israel-bans-dozens-of-aid-groups-from-operating-in-gaza-including-doctors-without-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Bans Dozens of Aid Groups from Operating in Gaza, Including Doctors Without Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Other groups that are being banned include the Norwegian Refugee Council, the Catholic charity Caritas, and Oxfam.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

30 Dec 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0Starting on January 1, Israel will ban 37 international aid groups and charities<\/a> from operating in Gaza in its latest effort to add to the misery for the Palestinian civilians living in flimsy tents and bombed-out buildings in the Strip.<\/p>\n

The groups being banned include several prominent international aid organizations: Doctors Without Borders (M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF), the Catholic charity Caritas, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and Oxfam. The NGOs will also be barred from working in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

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MSF teams treat a child patient at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on October 19, 2023.
\n(MSF photo used with permission)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Israel will stop the groups from operating in Gaza for failing to comply with its stringent new requirements, which include handing over information about their Palestinian employees. The new Israeli rules also include vague ideological requirements<\/a> that can disqualify any NGO that \u201cpromotes delegitimization campaigns\u201d against Israel, or if it, or any officeholder, has called for a boycott of Israel.<\/p>\n

An Israeli official claimed<\/a>, without providing evidence, that an investigation revealed \u201cemployees of certain organizations were involved in terrorist activity\u2026 in particular, Doctors Without Borders.\u201d The action against MSF is seen in part as an Israeli reaction to the organization\u2019s criticism of Israel\u2019s genocidal campaign in the Strip.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a> warning of the consequences of banning it from Gaza, MSF said that it has served hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Israeli authorities revoke MSF\u2019s access to Gaza in 2026, a large portion of people in Gaza will lose access to critical medical care, water, and lifesaving support,\u201d the group said. \u201cMSF\u2019s activities serve nearly half a million people in Gaza through our vital support to the destroyed health system. MSF continues to seek constructive engagement with Israeli authorities to continue its activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s move to ban the NGOs comes as Israel continues to violate the US-backed ceasefire deal by continuing to launch attacks on Palestinians<\/a> and maintaining restrictions on aid and shelter materials entering the Strip.<\/p>\n

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Dave DeCamp is the news editor of<\/em> antiwar.com.<\/p>\n

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30 Dec 2025\u00a0–\u00a0Other groups that are being banned include the Norwegian Refugee Council, the Catholic charity Caritas, and Oxfam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":311065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1854,3181,87,865,88,3312,1803,427,2159,880,70,965],"class_list":["post-311062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-doctors-without-borders","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-norwegian-refugee-council-nrc","tag-oxfam","tag-palestine","tag-rogue-states","tag-state-terrorism","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311066,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311062\/revisions\/311066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}