- Doctors Without Borders banned in Gaza.
- Ban includes 36 aid organizations total.
- MSF must end operations by March.
UN Secretary- General Antonio Guterres expressed his" deep concern" over the event on Friday and prompted Israel to lift its ban on philanthropic associations that supplied aid in Gaza.
Israel blazoned on Thursday that it was precluding 37 significant transnational philanthropic associations from penetrating the Gaza Strip on the grounds that they had neglected to submit the list of their workers' individualities, which is now formally demanded for" security" reasons.
Israel claims that this requirement was necessary to prevent extremists from infiltrating humanitarian organizations, despite MSF calling it a "scandalous intrusion."
“To work in Palestine, in the occupied Palestinian territories, we have to be registered ... That registration expired on Dec. 31, 2025,”
said Isabelle Defourny, a physician and president of MSF France, on France Inter.
“Since July 2025, we have been involved in a re-registration process, and to date, we have not received a response. We still have 60 days during which we could work without being re-registered, and so we would have to end our activities in March,”
if Israel maintains its decision, she said.
MSF employs 800 Palestinians at eight hospitals and about 40 foreign workers in the Gaza Strip.
She claims that NGOs "bear witness to the violence committed by the Israeli army" in Gaza, which explains the Israeli decision.
According to his prophet Stephane Dujarric, the UN chief" calls for this measure to be reversed, stressing that transnational non-governmental associations are necessary to life- saving philanthropic work and that the suspense pitfalls undermine the fragile progress made during the ceasefire."
Authorities in Gaza reported in November that over 70,000 Palestinians had failed there since the launch of the conflict.
The conflict has destroyed or damaged about 80 of Gaza's structures.
According to Amjad Al- Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza, nearly 1.5 million of the region's 2 million occupants had lost their houses.
What services will be most affected if MSF leaves Gaza?
MSF's departure from Gaza would most oppressively impact sanitarium bed support, motherly care, trauma treatment, internal health services, and clean water distribution, as these represent critical gaps in the home's collapsed health structure.
MSF supports 20 of Gaza's sanitarium beds and conducts inpatient consultations plus 100,000 trauma cases in 2025 alone; original staff can not sustain this scale amid force deaths. assists one- third of births, vital where public motherliness wards arenon-functional.
Over 700 million liters distributed and 100 million liters of clean water produced in 2025 nearly half a million people calculate on these for survival, aggravating complaint outbreaks without relief. MSF warns of" terrible cost" by March 2026 if banned.