PNN – The Israeli regime, under false pretenses and under the title of “new registration conditions,” violates the fundamental principles of humanitarian aid, including impartiality and independence, and puts the lives of millions of besieged Palestinians at serious risk. It plans to ban the activities of 37 international non-governmental organizations in Gaza and the West Bank from March 1st.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing the Palestinian news agency Ma’a, the human rights watchdog Human Rights Watch announced in a report that the Israeli occupation authorities intend to ban the activities of 37 international non-governmental organizations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank from March 1.
According to the report, this decision was justified on the grounds that these organizations had refused to provide lists of employees and their personal information within the framework of the “new registration requirements.”
Humanitarian organizations have stressed that these new requirements violate the fundamental principles of humanitarian work, especially impartiality and independence of action.
The report states that international aid organizations have consistently provided life-saving humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, amid intense pressure and Israeli attacks.
On February 22, more than 15 humanitarian organizations filed a petition arguing that the new registration requirements undermine international humanitarian law and pose a serious threat to cutting off the flow of life-saving aid to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Michelle Randhawa, senior refugee and migrant rights officer at Human Rights Watch, said: As Israeli authorities continue to impose an illegal and devastating blockade on Gaza, Israel’s politicization of registration requirements for aid organizations hinders their life-saving work.
He stressed that Israel must lift registration requirements and stop interfering in the work of organizations that are trying to solve the devastating humanitarian crises that the regime has created in Gaza and the West Bank.
According to Human Rights Watch, Israel has not committed to filling the potential aid gap, and so far only 27 organizations have been able to receive registration approval.
An Oxfam spokesperson told Al Jazeera Qatar in January that the organization would not transfer sensitive personal information to any party to the conflict, as doing so would violate humanitarian principles, monitoring obligations and data protection laws.
He emphasized that humanitarian organizations are obliged to maintain their activities and independence without political interference.
In a statement released in May 2025, 55 organizations operating in the region warned that new laws contemplated by Israel would make the registration of international organizations conditional on political and ideological bias and undermine the impartiality, impartiality, and independence of humanitarian activists.
The law, known as Government Decree (Cabinet of the Israeli Government) No. 2542 and passed in December 2024, stipulates that all international organizations providing humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people must register with the Ministry of Refugees and Combating Anti-Semitism by December 31, 2025, otherwise they will lose their registration by March 1, 2026 and will be forced to cease their activities. The law gives the Israeli cabinet broad authority to deny or revoke the registration of any organization or employee it deems a threat to public safety or the security of the regime.
According to Ma’a, this law does not apply to organizations that provide services to Palestinians or Zionist settlers, including residents of East Jerusalem.
The catastrophic situation in Gaza/Statistics that scream
By mid-October 2025, the UN Satellite Centre reported that about 81 percent of all buildings in Gaza had been damaged. All 36 hospitals and most primary health care facilities in the Gaza Strip had been damaged or destroyed, and by November, more than 97 percent of schools had been destroyed or damaged.
The Integrated Phased Classification of Food Security (IPC) (a global system for tracking malnutrition and food insecurity) announced that between mid-October and the end of November 2025, about 1.6 million people in Gaza, or 77 percent of the region’s population, faced critical levels of hunger or worse.
Blatant violation of international law by preventing aid from entering the Gaza Strip/Starvation as a weapon of war
Despite the alleged ceasefire agreement in October 2025, the Israeli regime continues to restrict aid from entering the Gaza Strip, leading to shortages of medicine, reconstruction equipment, food, and water.
Human Rights Watch emphasized that the deliberate restrictions imposed by the Israeli regime on the provision of assistance for political or military purposes violate the regime’s obligations as an occupying power under international humanitarian law: This Israeli action, if it reaches the point of using starvation as a weapon of war, would be an example of a war crime.
Ma’a added: The ban on 37 organizations follows the Israeli regime’s ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which has severely limited the agency’s humanitarian assistance capabilities, including a ban on aid distribution in Gaza and an order to close schools run by UNRWA in East Jerusalem.
In this regard, in October 2025, the International Court of Justice issued its advisory opinion, stating that Israel’s claims of UNRWA’s neutrality are invalid and that the regime’s obstruction of UNRWA’s activities is a violation of international law.