Israel to bar 37 aid groups as UK and EU warn of severe impact in Gaza

Oreo

Yes Whitewavemark2 it’s 37 groups as said above, 37 groups who refuse to comply with Israel on its staff.Given the situation I completely understand why Israel wants to know as the Palestinian arm of the charity ( UNRA) had members who not only supported hamas but actually took part in the murderous spree on October 7th.)
Other charities have complied with Israeli requests and they are the majority of charities operating in that area.

Whilst I understand entirely what you keep stating, Israel shouldn’t have stake or say in which charities do or do not operate in Gaza, nor should they be allowed to impose “conditions”

Gaza have only very recently been declared “out of famine”, Israelis Government is simply going to push Gaza back into famine by their latest “commands”

I will never accept this is acceptable

Sorry posted too soon. It seems that much of the behind the scenes implementation of aid was done by those banned organisations.
Many have not been able to comply with Israel's demands because of data protection and putting their operatives at risk.

I can understand the reluctance of those organisations who are not willing to comply with the demands from Israel., to hand over sensitive data that may endanger their operatives.

Cossy

Oreo

Yes Whitewavemark2 it’s 37 groups as said above, 37 groups who refuse to comply with Israel on its staff.Given the situation I completely understand why Israel wants to know as the Palestinian arm of the charity ( UNRA) had members who not only supported hamas but actually took part in the murderous spree on October 7th.)
Other charities have complied with Israeli requests and they are the majority of charities operating in that area.

Whilst I understand entirely what you keep stating, Israel shouldn’t have stake or say in which charities do or do not operate in Gaza, nor should they be allowed to impose “conditions”

Gaza have only very recently been declared “out of famine”, Israelis Government is simply going to push Gaza back into famine by their latest “commands”

I will never accept this is acceptable

I get fed-up with the "keep stating" bit - and my posts on threads like this getting deleted. Britain is a country with a right to freedom of speech - even if one person keeps wanting to state a non-mainstream view. Even if one person wishes to keep censoring other peoples posts.

Yep..I think I've figured it out........

Oreo 11.03: "Let’s get a bit of truth into this matter…. The organisations banned by Israel at the moment represent only about 1% of charitable donations into Gaza, the other charities who have complied with Israeli requests about their staff are all able to carry on as usual".

Oreo 11.21-"You will have to look for yourselves as to which organisations are operating in Gaza, I simply read that the 37 are around 1% of what’s going into the country.
Israel need to know the nationality of staff I expect, and many charities have complied with this already."

Let's get a bit of truth and context into your posts Oreo. You probably read it was the Israeli military body Cogat, which controls Gaza's crossings and co-ordinates aid deliveries that actually said the INGOs facing suspension "did not bring aid into Gaza throughout the current ceasefire" and added "even in the past their combined contribution amounted to only 1% of the total aid volume". However Cogat has not provided a list of the aid agencies that make up the other supposed 99% percent and no evidence to support its statement. Do you accept this Cogat statement as true is the absence of any verifiable data?

Further Isreal has stated "fewer than 15% of the INGOs providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza were found to be in violation of the new regulatory framework". 15%/1%- whcih is the accurate figure?

It should be noted that Israel has now introduced a framework to measure humanitarian agencies compliance- grounds for rejection of aid agencies in that framework includes, amongst other criteria, they must NOT - "support the prosecution of Israel security forces in foreign or international courts" and MUST share details from the EU and EU member states about their funding.

Anyone with common sense can understand that humanitarian impact is NOT measured by number of agencies percentages. The 1% figure Cogat quotes, not verified, even if true, does NOT equate to 1% VOLUME of aid SUPPORT, e.g. Medecins Sans Frontieres supports one in 5 hospital beds in Gaza and 1 in 3 births, a HUGE blow to sustaining the delivery of life saving care.

Further, 100s of aids workers have been killed over the past few years in Gaza. The agencies employees/volunteers personal data is protected by data protection laws as are the personal details of donors. Isreal now requires the agencies break the law.

What number of aid organisations Oreo are you satisfied HAVE ACTUALLY complied with Isreal's multiple new demands? Plus what volume of actual humanitarian aid or the overall volume of humanitarian aid required are you satisfied these "compliant" agencies will actually be able to deliver from today? How many hospital beds and births will the "compliant" agencies be able to support in Gaza from today- 1 January?

LemonJam - I think you're my "new best friend". Very comprehensive and factual rebuttal of Oreo's posts.

Doubtless wanted war criminal, Nettanyaho, will have the full backing of HRH King Donald Trump.

Both should have a one way ticket to the International Criminal Court.

CariadAgain

I completely agree with your “freedom of speech” and long may it last.

Just for the record, I’ve on ever reported spam, never a genuine GN’s comment, much as I might disagree with them, we are all entitled to express our views/beliefs/opinions as many times as we like I have done and am also prepared to accept the rebuffs, responses and consequences

CabbageWars13

Doubtless wanted war criminal, Nettanyaho, will have the full backing of HRH King Donald Trump.

Both should have a one way ticket to the International Criminal Court.

Or distant shores, never to be heard of again, along with Trump!

LemonJam

Oreo 11.03: "Let’s get a bit of truth into this matter…. The organisations banned by Israel at the moment represent only about 1% of charitable donations into Gaza, the other charities who have complied with Israeli requests about their staff are all able to carry on as usual".

Oreo 11.21-"You will have to look for yourselves as to which organisations are operating in Gaza, I simply read that the 37 are around 1% of what’s going into the country.
Israel need to know the nationality of staff I expect, and many charities have complied with this already."

Let's get a bit of truth and context into your posts Oreo. You probably read it was the Israeli military body Cogat, which controls Gaza's crossings and co-ordinates aid deliveries that actually said the INGOs facing suspension "did not bring aid into Gaza throughout the current ceasefire" and added "even in the past their combined contribution amounted to only 1% of the total aid volume". However Cogat has not provided a list of the aid agencies that make up the other supposed 99% percent and no evidence to support its statement. Do you accept this Cogat statement as true is the absence of any verifiable data?

Further Isreal has stated "fewer than 15% of the INGOs providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza were found to be in violation of the new regulatory framework". 15%/1%- whcih is the accurate figure?

It should be noted that Israel has now introduced a framework to measure humanitarian agencies compliance- grounds for rejection of aid agencies in that framework includes, amongst other criteria, they must NOT - "support the prosecution of Israel security forces in foreign or international courts" and MUST share details from the EU and EU member states about their funding.

Anyone with common sense can understand that humanitarian impact is NOT measured by number of agencies percentages. The 1% figure Cogat quotes, not verified, even if true, does NOT equate to 1% VOLUME of aid SUPPORT, e.g. Medecins Sans Frontieres supports one in 5 hospital beds in Gaza and 1 in 3 births, a HUGE blow to sustaining the delivery of life saving care.

Further, 100s of aids workers have been killed over the past few years in Gaza. The agencies employees/volunteers personal data is protected by data protection laws as are the personal details of donors. Isreal now requires the agencies break the law.

What number of aid organisations Oreo are you satisfied HAVE ACTUALLY complied with Isreal's multiple new demands? Plus what volume of actual humanitarian aid or the overall volume of humanitarian aid required are you satisfied these "compliant" agencies will actually be able to deliver from today? How many hospital beds and births will the "compliant" agencies be able to support in Gaza from today- 1 January?

Fabulous post, thank you.

I did briefly search for the other “99%” Couldn’t find much at all about them other than from an Israeli site!

Surely it doesn’t make any kind of sense to stop aid getting into Gaza, it does feel bloody minded and cannot be tolerated surely. Are there any other examples of aid agencies being stopped from saving lives in other regions around the world?
Certainly not a good start to 2026 for Gazans.

Cossy

CariadAgain

I completely agree with your “freedom of speech” and long may it last.

Just for the record, I’ve on ever reported spam, never a genuine GN’s comment, much as I might disagree with them, we are all entitled to express our views/beliefs/opinions as many times as we like I have done and am also prepared to accept the rebuffs, responses and consequences

Thanks for that - I know it's not you that keeps reporting the other opinion to her own.

I'm with you on just not reporting other people - just because I disagree with them. I'd rather state I disagree with them - and why - rather than report them to try and stop the other viewpoint being put. It's a form of censorship I thoroughly disagree with to think "They've got the opposite viewpoint - report.....". I don't know if Gransnet keeps a log of regular "reporters"....but it would certainly be useful for them to be able to think "that poster has reported X 10 times, Y 20 times, A 40 times. They do seem to be prolific at reporting people they don't agree with and try not to let other people have their say".

I don't think I've even seen any spam to report - but certainly disagree strongly with the whole concept of reporting someone just for having a different viewpoint.

But - defo - I do know it's not you...

Cossy: 12.56 "Fabulous post, thank you.

I did briefly search for the other “99%” Couldn’t find much at all about them other than from an Israeli site!".

I've not seen any such detail anywhere and I'm not sure I entirely believe the figure Cogat quotes either. Plus we've all read about individual fundraisers or small organisations that have raised funds locally and driven aid to Gaza over the past few years.

In the absence of Israell providing a list of those 99% organisations, that sets out the nature and volume of life saving humanitarian aid each delivers, the 1% v 99% Cogat comparison figure is meaningless I would suggest. Further those 99% organisations could deliver a very small proportion of aid to Gaza from today and of a lower life saving level than those 37 blocked organisations....

There is no other information I can see other than Cogat, so in the absence of charitable agencies denying or confirming anything, than yes I will go with what they say.If all the charities stated what they sent into Gaza it would be easier to see what’s what.
Other charities have complied with what the Israeli government are demanding, so why can’t the others?

CariadAgain
You don’t seem to understand that having a post deleted is absolutely nothing to do with having a different opinion as if it was most of f not all of the comments on here would be deleted.Think about it.
The post under your deleted one by Wyllow didn’t agree with what you said,if you noticed that, so not all on here agree with everything you wrote in that post, thankfully.Free speech up to a point.

Oreo

There is no other information I can see other than Cogat, so in the absence of charitable agencies denying or confirming anything, than yes I will go with what they say.If all the charities stated what they sent into Gaza it would be easier to see what’s what.
Other charities have complied with what the Israeli government are demanding, so why can’t the others?

Whilst again, I do see your point completely, I just don’t see why or agree that other charities should “comply” If Gaza belonged to Israel I can see they might have the right to ask for many details, but Gaza isn’t and I just don’t think Israel have this right! Only my opinion of course

LemonJam

Oreo 11.03: "Let’s get a bit of truth into this matter…. The organisations banned by Israel at the moment represent only about 1% of charitable donations into Gaza, the other charities who have complied with Israeli requests about their staff are all able to carry on as usual".

Oreo 11.21-"You will have to look for yourselves as to which organisations are operating in Gaza, I simply read that the 37 are around 1% of what’s going into the country.
Israel need to know the nationality of staff I expect, and many charities have complied with this already."

Let's get a bit of truth and context into your posts Oreo. You probably read it was the Israeli military body Cogat, which controls Gaza's crossings and co-ordinates aid deliveries that actually said the INGOs facing suspension "did not bring aid into Gaza throughout the current ceasefire" and added "even in the past their combined contribution amounted to only 1% of the total aid volume". However Cogat has not provided a list of the aid agencies that make up the other supposed 99% percent and no evidence to support its statement. Do you accept this Cogat statement as true is the absence of any verifiable data?

Further Isreal has stated "fewer than 15% of the INGOs providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza were found to be in violation of the new regulatory framework". 15%/1%- whcih is the accurate figure?

It should be noted that Israel has now introduced a framework to measure humanitarian agencies compliance- grounds for rejection of aid agencies in that framework includes, amongst other criteria, they must NOT - "support the prosecution of Israel security forces in foreign or international courts" and MUST share details from the EU and EU member states about their funding.

Anyone with common sense can understand that humanitarian impact is NOT measured by number of agencies percentages. The 1% figure Cogat quotes, not verified, even if true, does NOT equate to 1% VOLUME of aid SUPPORT, e.g. Medecins Sans Frontieres supports one in 5 hospital beds in Gaza and 1 in 3 births, a HUGE blow to sustaining the delivery of life saving care.

Further, 100s of aids workers have been killed over the past few years in Gaza. The agencies employees/volunteers personal data is protected by data protection laws as are the personal details of donors. Isreal now requires the agencies break the law.

What number of aid organisations Oreo are you satisfied HAVE ACTUALLY complied with Isreal's multiple new demands? Plus what volume of actual humanitarian aid or the overall volume of humanitarian aid required are you satisfied these "compliant" agencies will actually be able to deliver from today? How many hospital beds and births will the "compliant" agencies be able to support in Gaza from today- 1 January?

Thank goodness for those who are willing to put in the time and research to post objective facts, rather than subjective information from echo chambers.

LemonJam, can't thanks you enough for your research and lengthy post.
Yes, Cossy, I just came on to do that search, so thanks.

But there aren’t any facts around which charities do what in Gaza.

Cariad, I didn't see your deleted post but if I did, can't remember why it was deleted, as in, nothing jumped out at me.
Remember that Shadows lurk on these Threads.

Cossy

Oreo

There is no other information I can see other than Cogat, so in the absence of charitable agencies denying or confirming anything, than yes I will go with what they say.If all the charities stated what they sent into Gaza it would be easier to see what’s what.
Other charities have complied with what the Israeli government are demanding, so why can’t the others?

Whilst again, I do see your point completely, I just don’t see why or agree that other charities should “comply” If Gaza belonged to Israel I can see they might have the right to ask for many details, but Gaza isn’t and I just don’t think Israel have this right! Only my opinion of course

Thank you for a polite reply Cossy and of course we all have our own opinions on what goes on in Gaza.

Thank you LemonJam for that great post.

Oreo- It's your choice to believe Cogat's statement as "truth" without any factual evidence as you stated in your 11.03 post, i.e. that the list of 37 blocked humanitarian agencies form only 1% of the total aid agencies currently delivering aid into Gaza.

But why do you expect humanitarian agencies to provide evidence to confirm or deny Cogat's statement instead, i.e. "in the absence of charitable agencies denying or confirming anything, than yes I will go with what they say. If all the charities stated what they sent into Gaza it would be easier to see what’s what. Other charities have complied with what the Israeli government are demanding, so why can’t the others?"

Oreo- please will you clarify which other agencies have complied with the Israeli governments new demands as you state, some of which are illegal? Why have these agencies not outlined the nature of aid they deliver into Gaza and the volume? After all the 37 blocked humanitarian agencies have made clear they have been blocked- why won't the "compliant" agencies name themselves- or Cogat name them they will not? Plus why won't the compliant agencies or Cogat outline the nature of their aid and % of overall aid delivered?

After all we do already have the list of 37 blocked agencies and we do know the nature of aid they send into Gaza- e.g. MSF supports one in 5 hospital beds in Gaza and 1 in 3 births, as I included in my 12.38 post. Are you worried at all that this life saving aid has now been blocked by Israel?