07/08/2025 09:09
The Guardian
On Wednesday the Israeli military put parts of Gaza City and Khan Younis under new enforced displacement ordersUN agencies and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have warned that without immediate action most international NGO partners could be deregistered by Israel in coming weeks.A statement published on Thursday by UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory (OCHAoPT) and authored by the humanitarian country team of the occupied Palestinian territory, called for the Israeli authorities to rescind requirement introduced on 9 March obliging NGO to share “sensitive personal information about their Palestinian employees or face termination of their humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem”.Unless urgent action is taken, humanitarian organizations warn that most international NGO partners could be de-registered by 9 September or sooner – forcing them to withdraw all international staff and preventing them from providing critical, life-saving humanitarian assistance to Palestinians. This requirement is part of a set of new restrictive conditions for international NGOs which include potential consequences for public criticism of policies and practices of the government of Israel.Impeding NGOs from participating in the collective humanitarian response violates Israel’s obligations under international humanitarian law and comes at a time when we are receiving daily reports of death by starvation as Gaza faces famine conditions.[Israeli PM Benjamin] Netanyahu’s latest proposals for the occupation of all of Gaza are utterly horrifying.If realised, they will only wreak yet more destruction on Gazans – while gravely endangering the lives of the hostages still held in Hamas’ captivity. Continue reading...
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