Israel: Aid Groups Barred From Gaza, West Bank

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The Guardian reported in January 2026 that Israel has allowed commercial shippers to import "dual-use" items for sale on the market.
46% : Oxfam, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Save the Children, and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) are among the 37 affected organizations that, together with Palestinian civil society groups and the UN, have provided lifesaving goods and services to millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
45% : "Israel's politicization of registration requirements for aid groups hamstrings their lifesaving activities while Israeli authorities continue to impose a crippling, unlawful blockade on Gaza," said Michelle Randhawa, senior refugee and migrant rights officer at Human Rights Watch.
44% : According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), if these groups cease operations in Gaza, one in three health facilities would immediately close, 20,000 patients requiring monthly specialized care would lose access to care, waterborne diseases and sanitation conditions would worsen, and there would be immediate and severe gaps in detecting and treating malnutrition.
42% : Despite the ceasefire agreement in October, Israel's continued restriction of aid entry into Gaza causes shortages of medicines, reconstruction equipment, food, and water.
41% : As of February 2026, the UN reports that Israeli authorities have not permitted any of them to return.
40% : " Aid workers in Gaza have for the last two years operated amid Israel's indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, use of starvation as a weapon of war, extermination and acts of genocide, and massive, deliberate forced displacement of Palestinian civilians, amounting to crimes against humanity.
40% : The ban of the 37 groups follows Israel's ban on the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which severely limited the agency's humanitarian assistance capabilities, including blocking aid distribution into Gaza and issuing closure orders for UNRWA-operated schools in East Jerusalem.
39% : "Israel should rescind the registration requirements and stop interfering with organizations trying to respond to the devastating humanitarian crises it has created in Gaza and the West Bank.
39% : " As of mid-October 2025, the UN Satellite Center reported that approximately 81 percent of all structures in Gaza had been damaged.
39% : Israel's deliberate restrictions to aid in pursuit of its political or military objectives violate its obligations as an occupying party under international humanitarian law and constitute a war crime when they amount to using starvation as a weapon of war In November, the deputy UN spokesperson, Farhan Haq, said: "The Israeli authorities have rejected 107 requests for the entry of relief materials," saying the materials were outside the scope of humanitarian aid or "dual-use" items.
35% : In October 2025, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion that Israel's allegations that UNRWA lacks impartiality are unfounded and that its obstruction of the agency's work is at odds with international law.

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