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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Those banned organisations provide a lot more than just adding to the volume of aid. They provide technical assistance

Whitewavemark2

I have been watching, listening and reading about Israeli activities in Gaza and the West Bank since the so called ceasefire.

What the Palestinians are suffering is truly dreadful.

I no longer have any interest in debating this subject as the pariah state of Israel is beyond saving. I feel so sorry for the Jewish folk both in Israel and the rest of the world, whose faith in their homeland has been so shattered.

🙏 👏👏👏👏👏

Absolutely disgraceful, disgusting and inhumane!

In my humble opinion Netanyahu is a war criminal.

I think of Gaza and Ukraine often, terrible disasters caused solely by the evil of mankind, Hammas, Putin and Netanyahu, 🙏🙏🙏 for and end to these wars and all others.

There’s enough natural disasters without those created by greedy evil humans?

So many read and quote Trump, why feed the need

What Israel is doing, breaks international law.

But when did such a pariah state care, especially with mad Trump supporting the Israeli state/Netanyahu/money making opportunities.

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.

Oreo as Whitewavemark2 has supplied a long list of relief organisations that are banned by Israel, perhaps you could name at least some of the other 98% of organisations that are allowed to supply aid.

I would also be interested to know what Israel requests that the banned organisations are unable or unwilling to comply with.

Certainly I know of several organisations on that list Whitewave - ie that they are very reputable ones.

It may well be that Netanyahu is "playing ducks and drakes" re elections.....who knew Prime Ministers could/would do a thing like that (ie considering our own current one is doing exactly that.....).

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.

In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the UK, France, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland said INGOs were integral to the humanitarian response in Gaza and that any attempt to stem their ability to operate was "unacceptable".
"Without them, it will be impossible to meet all urgent needs at the scale required," they warned.

The groups banned by Israel

Action Against Hunger
ActionAid
Alianza por la Solidaridad
Campaign for the Children of Palestine
CARE
DanChurchAid
Danish Refugee Council
Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
Japan International Volunteer Center
Medecins du Monde France
Medecins du Monde Switzerland
Medecins Sans Frontieres Belgium
Medecins Sans Frontieres France
Medecins Sans Frontieres Netherlands
Medecins Sans Frontieres Spain
Medicos del Mundo
Mercy Corps
Norwegian Refugee Council
Oxfam Novib (Oxfam’s Dutch affiliate)
Premiere Urgence Internationale
Terre des hommes Lausanne
International Rescue Committee
WeWorld-GVC
World Vision International
Relief International
Fondazione AVSI
Movement for Peace-MPDL
American Friends Service Committee
Medico International
Palestine Solidarity Association in Sweden
Defense for Children International
Medical Aid for Palestinians UK
Caritas Internationalis
Caritas Jerusalem
Near East Council of Churches
Oxfam Quebec
War Child Holland

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.

It has always been claimed here by a majority that Netanyahu started war in Gaza to avoid election,

Well of course 2026 is going to bring new elections in Israel, but they could hold off until October.

We still have peaceful demonstrations every Friday locally in the town centre. (Placards and quiet) I wish I were well enough to go but I know a lot of people feel as we do here.
I do not feel that criticising the current regime is anti-semitic, as has often been suggested: it's a matter for decent people to try and do their best. I'm going to have another round of emailing MP's. I was going to "up" my donations to Medicin Sans Frontiers but if the ban goes ahead will need to look elsewhere.

To me - it's a world of difference in mindset going on there. I think maybe Netanyahu thinks "As I'm making their life so unbearable then maybe they will decide to cut their suffering short themselves on an individual basis - eg just walk out into their sea and not stop walking" (to put it as gently as one can put such a thought). Some would do that...and just decide "I'm not going to put up with being treated so appallingly any longer..." and that would be that in some countries/with some ways of thinking.

But I see no evidence that the Palestinians would think along those lines individually. Instead they're there holding that mass wedding ceremony the other day, holding a mass graduation for new doctors on another day and trying to "live their lives" as far as they can. If Netanyahu thinks they'll think in what is probably a more Western way of "I'm going to get myself outa this personally - even if that's how I have to do it (ie the sea)" then I think he's probably very mistaken.

So - nope....the Palestinians are not going to oblige and start thinking in an individualistic Western "What can I best do for me personally? Decide not to put up with this any longer......." sorta way and he's very mistaken if that's how he is thinking/what he is hoping for.

It's not my way of thinking to stay put regardless - and I'm probably way more "individualistic" in my way of thinking than many Western people even (that would be betting on a certainty in my case...) - but my estimate is that it is their way of thinking and they will carry right on trying to "have a life" whatever Netanyahu does and he'll never understand them...and so will carry right on in there with his "Night (or decades) of the Long Knife" attacks on them.

I don't think Netanyahu can see that he's actually more likely to kill off his own people - as there are a noticeable number of them packing their bags and leaving Palestine currently.

I have not forgotten Gaza and still feel concern for the people. It doesn't surprise me how brutal the Israeli government is as their aim has always been to 'cleanse' Gaza of Palestinians.