Overview

• More than 100 international NGOs report that Israel’s March NGO registration and mid-July customs-clearance rules have blocked their aid deliveries to Gaza since March, including over 60 rejected requests in July alone.
• Aid officials and Reuters witnessed dozens of trucks loaded with food, medicine and shelter items—worth millions of dollars—turned back at Rafah and Kerem Shalom over minor packing, paperwork or security concerns.
• COGAT says about 300 aid trucks enter Gaza daily through organizations that meet its security criteria, but NGOs argue this is far below the roughly 600 trucks a day needed to avert a humanitarian collapse.
• Humanitarian monitors and Palestinian health authorities warn Gaza is at or past famine thresholds, reporting hundreds of deaths from malnutrition and escalating child malnutrition rates.
• Critics fault the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s militarized distribution model for chaotic, sometimes deadly aid sites, and call for unimpeded, independent relief access.