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Shafaq
News – Middle East
Israel is
accused of obstructing humanitarian relief to Gaza through a new registration
system imposed on international aid organizations, the Financial Times reported
on Friday, citing several humanitarian groups.
According
to the report, the system has held up tens of millions of dollars’ worth of
assistance outside Gaza, as convoys and shipments remain stalled pending
Israeli clearance.
Forty
international aid groups indicated that Israel rejected 99 requests to bring
humanitarian supplies into Gaza during the first 12 days of the ceasefire.
Around three-quarters of those rejections were reportedly justified as “not
authorized” to operate in the territory.
Under the
new measure, Israel has instructed all humanitarian agencies to re-register
before the end of the year or risk losing their licenses to operate — a
regulation that has disrupted the work of major organizations including
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Oxfam, and the Norwegian
Refugee Council.
The
Norwegian Refugee Council also confirmed that each time it seeks approval to
deliver aid, Israeli authorities respond that its registration “is under
review,” effectively halting relief operations.
Israel
has not publicly commented on the report or on the rationale behind the new
registration requirements.
Earlier,
aid agencies reported that the Strip is facing a deepening humanitarian
catastrophe: around 1.9 million people — nearly nine out of ten residents —
have been displaced, while the UN Food Security classification estimates that
over half a million are now in “catastrophic” conditions of food shortage and
famine.
The
crisis follows more than two years of open war in which 68,527 Palestinians —
most of them women and children — were killed. It also left much of Gaza’s
infrastructure destroyed while pushing its health and food systems to the brink
of collapse.