Mohammed al-Neder, 21, mourns over the body of his four-month-old brother Ahmed, who was killed by Israeli forces, during his funeral at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, December 20, 2025ISRAEL’S new registration rules for organisations providing humanitarian aid to people in Gaza risks leaving hundreds of thousands without lifesaving healthcare in 2026, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned today.
The new requirements threaten to withdraw registration from international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) from January 1.
This non-registration would prevent humanitarian organisations from providing essential services to people in Gaza and the West Bank, MSF said today.
“With Gaza’s health system already destroyed, independent and experienced humanitarian organisations losing access to respond would be a disaster for Palestinians,” MSF said.
The international medical charity called on Israel to ensure that INGOs can maintain and continue their work in Gaza, saying the already restricted humanitarian response cannot be further dismantled.
“In the last year, MSF teams have treated hundreds of thousands of patients and delivered hundreds of millions of litres of water,” MSF emergency co-ordinator for Gaza Pascale Coissard said today.
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