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‘Life-saving work’ in balance as Israel’s NGO ban nears: NRC chief

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned that the aid group’s “life-saving work” in the occupied Palestinian territory will soon be “much more difficult” amid Israel’s push to bar the organisation from operating.

Israel has revoked the operating licences of dozens of aid groups for allegedly failing to comply with new government regulations that require the organisations to provide detailed information on staff members, as well as their funding and operations.

Experts say the requirements contravene humanitarian principles and follow a longstanding Israeli government campaign to impede the work of aid groups assisting Palestinians.

NRC head Jan Egeland said the organisation will lose its registration in 16 days.

“This will prevent our life-saving assistance,” he wrote on X, adding that at least 40 aid groups also will lose their registrations.

That will mean “fewer humanitarian organisations” as well as “fewer services reaching families in desperate need”.



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A source at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City tells Al Jazeera that several Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on people in the city’s Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Children were among the injured transported to the hospital.

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People walk past a large mound of rubbish at a landfill site in Gaza City


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The UN Development Programme (UNDP) says work has begun “to remove a solid-waste mound” that has overtaken a once-bustling market in Gaza City known as Firas Market. Located in one of the city’s oldest commercial districts, the “huge wartime garbage dump poses both an environmental and health risk”, UNDP said in a post on X