A Palestinian woman arrives with a child at the Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on new year's Eve, December 31, 2025. AFP
"We call on the Israeli authorities to ensure that MSF and other INGOs (international non-governmental organisations) are registered in Israel to continue working in the West Bank and Gaza in 2026," MSF told AFP in a statement.
Israel plans to ban 37 aid groups, including MSF, from operating in Gaza from Thursday unless they hand over detailed information on their Palestinian staff.
The deadline for NGOs to provide the details expires at midnight on Wednesday.
"We certainly won't accept any cooperation that is just for show, simply to get an extension", a spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Gilad Zwick, told AFP, giving names of 37 NGOs that had so far failed to meet the new requirements.
Some of the 37 NGOs to be hit with the ban are Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Norwegian Refugee Council, World Vision International, CARE, and Oxfam, according to the list given by Zwick.
Several NGOs have told AFP the new rules will have a major impact on aid distribution in Gaza, with humanitarian organisations saying the amount of aid entering Gaza remains inadequate.
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