Overview
- Israel began enforcing the ban on January 1 against 37 international NGOs that declined to submit staff lists required by a new accreditation regulation.
- Affected organizations include Médecins Sans Frontières, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Care, World Vision and Oxfam, which argue that sharing Palestinian employees' personal data would put staff at risk.
- Israel’s Ministry of the Diaspora says the groups have until March 1 to provide the requested personnel information for review or to withdraw from Gaza.
- MSF condemns the policy as a cynical interference in humanitarian work and cites the killing of 15 of its colleagues since October 2023 as it raises data-protection concerns.
- UN leadership calls for the decision to be reversed, warning of further disruption to life-saving aid deliveries, while Israeli and NGO figures on aid truck volumes into Gaza remain far apart.