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SvennoJ on 31 December 2025
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Suspension of aid organisations to further isolate Palestinians in Gaza

The suspension and withdrawal of aid organisations from Gaza will further isolate Palestinians from the outside world. Beyond the material that is brought here and provided by these organisations, there is a broader consequence: Visibility and accountability.

For two years, these organisations have helped document the genocidal acts unfolding and maintain the connection between Gaza and the outside world. Forcing them out and suspending their operations means further isolating Palestinians from the outside world so that their suffering becomes easier to overlook.

That’s the point that the Israeli military is after. The Israeli military has often publicly expressed frustration at the United Nations for impeding and hindering its operations on the ground.

It’s not the first time we see this happen. Over the course of the past two years, Israel has been after UNRWA’s relief programmes; it has vilified the UN agency, its relief programmes and staff on the ground, to the point where operations became very limited.

The creation of restrictive military zones by the Israeli military in more than 55 percent of the Gaza Strip also prevented organisations from delivering aid.


UNRWA says Palestinians in Gaza suffer from cold as Israel curbs aid

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says its supplies are ready to enter Gaza amid heavy rain and strong winds that have battered the Palestinian enclave, but Israeli authorities are not allowing it access.

In its latest operational update, UNRWA said food parcels enough for 1.1 million people had been stored at the border, in addition to flour for 2.1 million individuals and shelter supplies for hundreds of thousands.

The Israeli authorities have not granted the agency’s international staff visas or permits to enter the occupied Palestinian territory, including Gaza, since the end of January. They also continue to block UNRWA from bringing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.



‘Israel continues to block us whether we’re registered or not’: Oxfam

Humanitarian organisations operating in Gaza are expressing uncertainty over how Israel’s new rules will affect their work in the Strip, but noted that the humanitarian blockade Israel has imposed since March 2 had already precipitated the situation.

Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam’s policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory, told Al Jazeera that the new Israeli requirements will prevent NGOs from operating in Israel but should not prevent them from operating inside Gaza and the West Bank, given that they’d still be registered under the Palestinian Authority (PA).

“It does impact what we can bring into Gaza, but we’ve been blocked anyway from entering materials into Gaza since March,” Khalidi said. “Israel continues to block us whether we’re registered or not and has continued to deliberately obstruct humanitarian aid regardless of these rules.”

Khalidi added that the latest measures were “part of Israel’s longstanding campaign of marginalising, isolating and smearing civil society organisations”.


Gaza’s cancer patients facing ‘death sentence’

Dr Mohammed Abu Nada, medical director of the Gaza Ministry of Health’s Cancer Centre, says his patients in the enclave are staring down “a slow death sentence”.

“The severe shortage of cancer medications, the denial of diagnostic services, and the continued closure of crossings preventing their travel abroad for treatment complete the triangle of death that threatens their lives at any moment,” he said in a statement published on the ministry’s Telegram page.

“The only way to save their lives is for them to leave the Strip for treatment,” the doctor added, calling for “urgent action” to ferry more cancer patients abroad.

In March, Israel blew up Gaza’s only specialised cancer treatment hospital.