Archiv: with effect on 01-01-2026: in yet another unscrupulous attack on International Law and World Order Israel bans 37 aid organizations from working in Gaza / UN response: de facto none


03.01.2026 - 13:17 [ Council on Foreign Relations ]

Israel, Russia, and the United States Are Testing the Boundaries of Global Order

(September 12, 2025)

As I’ve discussed at length recently, we have already witnessed the death of the global trading system as we have known it. But this slide away from the rules-based system isn’t limited to trade. It is evident in the use of military force as well.

Three examples of unilateral military action over the past couple weeks are particularly instructive:

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That is the real Hobbesian peril. Each of these actions can be seen as an isolated instance, but if one or two or three countries take kinetic action unilaterally, it risks creating a permission structure where others feel there are no guardrails to constrain them.

02.01.2026 - 19:58 [ Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders / Ärzte ohne Grenzen ]

Gaza: Drohung der israelischen Regierung, NGOs die Registrierung zu verweigern, ist ein schwerer Schlag für humanitäre Hilfe

Jerusalem/Berlin, 2. Januar 2026. Die Drohung der israelischen Regierung, Ärzte ohne Grenzen und anderen internationalen Nichtregierungsorganisationen (INGOs) die Registrierung zu verweigern, ist ein zynischer und kalkulierter Versuch, die Organisationen daran zu hindern, im Gazastreifen und im Westjordanland Hilfe zu leisten. Damit verstößt Israel gegen seine Verpflichtungen nach dem humanitären Völkerrecht.

Der Zivilbevölkerung medizinische Hilfe zu verweigern, kann unter keinen Umständen akzeptiert werden. Es ist empörend, humanitäre Hilfe als politisches Instrument oder als Mittel kollektiver Bestrafung zu missbrauchen. Die israelischen Behörden verschärfen damit ihre schweren Angriffe auf die humanitäre Hilfe und bedrohen direkt die medizinische Versorgung der Menschen im Gazastreifen und im Westjordanland.

Ärzte ohne Grenzen weist die Vorwürfe, die von den israelischen Behörden in den vergangenen Tagen erhoben worden sind, entschieden zurück. Die medizinische Hilfsorganisation würde niemals wissentlich Personen beschäftigen, die an militärischen Aktivitäten beteiligt sind – dies widerspricht ihren grundlegenden Werten und ihrer Ethik. Die Berichte darüber, was Teams von Ärzte ohne Grenzen mit eigenen Augen in Gaza sehen – Tod, Zerstörung und die Folgen genozidaler Gewalt – mögen schwer erträglich sein, die Verantwortung dafür liegt aber bei jenen, die diese Gräueltaten begehen, und nicht bei jenen, die darüber Zeugnis ablegen.

02.01.2026 - 19:52 [ Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders / Ärzte ohne Grenzen ]

Israel’s threat to withhold registration for NGOs: A grave blow to humanitarian aid in Gaza and the West Bank

Israel’s threat to withhold registration from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) is a cynical and calculated attempt to prevent organisations from providing services in Gaza and the West Bank, Palestine, in breach of Israel‘s obligations under international humanitarian law.

Denying medical assistance to civilians is unacceptable under any circumstances and it is appalling to use humanitarian aid as a tool of policy or collective punishment. Now is the time for action. Israel is escalating its grave attack on humanitarian response, directly threatening medical care and humanitarian aid to civilians.

MSF unequivocally refutes the allegations made by the Israeli authorities in recent days. MSF would never knowingly employ anyone involved in military activities, which contradicts our core values and ethics. If the descriptions of what our teams see with their own eyes in Gaza – death, destruction and the human consequences of genocidal violence – are unpalatable to some, the fault lies with those committing these atrocities, not with those who speak of them.

01.01.2026 - 15:04 [ Al Jazeera ]

LIVE: Israel’s ban on 37 aid groups kicks in, Gaza starts 2026 with despair

Israel’s decision to revoke the licences of 37 international NGOs, including Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has come into effect as the Israeli government pushes to demonise organisations that assist Palestinians, among them United Nations agencies, with unproven accusations of links to Hamas.

People in Gaza have started 2026 not with hope or certainty, but with despair as they face more Israeli restrictions amid a humanitarian catastrophe, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports from Gaza City.

01.01.2026 - 14:47 [ United Nations ]

UN chief condemns Israeli amendments targeting UNRWA operations

The UN Secretary-General has condemned amendments adopted by Israel’s Knesset to a law aimed at ceasing the operations of the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees (UNRWA), saying the measures must be immediately repealed.

The amendments, adopted on 29 December, to the Law to Cease UNRWA Operations “seek to further impede UNRWA’s ability to operate and carry out its mandated activities,” said a statement issued by the Spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

“The Law and its amendments are inconsistent with the status and international legal framework applicable to UNRWA and must be immediately repealed,” it added.

01.01.2026 - 14:39 [ United Nations ]

Another child dies in extreme conditions in Gaza: UNICEF

A sixth child has died in Gaza this month as the enclave’s people continue to endure dire living conditions linked to freezing rains and the Israel-Hamas war, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced. The development comes as aid agencies urged Israeli authorities to reconsider revoking the licences of dozens of humanitarian partners that provide assistance across the devastated enclave from 1 January.

31.12.2025 - 18:33 [ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) / Büro des Hohen Kommissars für Menschenrechte ]

Outrageous suspension of numerous aid agencies from Gaza

Delivered by
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk

At
Geneva

Israel’s suspension of numerous aid agencies from Gaza is outrageous.

This is the latest in a pattern of unlawful restrictions on humanitarian access, including Israel’s ban on UNRWA (the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East), as well as attacks on Israeli and Palestinian NGOs amid broader access issues faced by the UN and other humanitarians.

I urge all States, in particular those with influence, to take urgent steps and insist that Israel immediately allows aid to get into Gaza unhindered. Such arbitrary suspensions make an already intolerable situation even worse for the people of Gaza.

31.12.2025 - 18:09 [ Al Jazeera ]

Israel’s NGO ban sets ‘dangerous precedent’ for humanitarian work: UNRWA

Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, says Israel’s suspension of 37 aid organisations in Gaza shows “a troubling pattern of disregard for international humanitarian law”.

“This is a dangerous precedent,” Lazzarini wrote on social media platform X…..

31.12.2025 - 17:55 [ MSN.com ]

Israel announces shock move to ban dozens of aid organizations from Gaza

Israel has singled out international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), alleging that it had two employees who were members of Palestinian militant groups Islamic Jihad and Hamas

31.12.2025 - 17:49 [ Radio France International ]

Israel to ban 37 aid groups operating in Gaza

„They refuse to provide lists of their Palestinian employees because they know, just as we know, that some of them are involved in terrorism or linked to Hamas,“ spokesman for the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Gilad Zwick told AFP, naming 37 NGOs that had so far failed to meet the new requirements