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Israel stopping 35 NGOS from working in West Bank or Gaza

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Aliceisagooddog · 31/12/2025 19:19

How on earth can this be justified? Organisations like MAP which have worked for years and are fully registered. Another example of Israels inhumanity.

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MyCatStoleSausages · 06/01/2026 11:38

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HopeMumsnet · 06/01/2026 13:47

Hi all,
Please do get in touch if you have any concerns re the motivations of posters, but absolutely refrain from discussing them on the thread as we consider it goading and a personal attack.
As far as we can see, everyone on this thread is a legitimate MNer (we would take action were that not the case) and we expect you all to behave with civility towards each other, even if you disagree on the matter in hand.

Boolabus · 06/01/2026 14:35

Twiglets1 · 06/01/2026 10:02

From the same article Israel has bucked the criticism, arguing the new regulations aim to prevent organizations it accuses of supporting terrorism from operating in Gaza and the West Bank.

Naturally it will always be denied by these organisations that they have employees that support terrorism. This was also strongly denied by UNRWA but there was enough evidence against them for the US to stop funding the organisation. Other countries including the UK also paused funding to UNRWA in light of the allegations that 12 staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel. The UK & some other countries has now reinstated funding, but only after UNRWA came up with an action plan setting out detailed reforms.

If Israel are hyper vigilant about security measures, I believe that to be understandable given 7/10. If there were to be another attack, they would be criticised for not having been stringent enough. As always, I feel like people on this board only present things from one perspective so they present it like there is no justification at all for Israel requiring personal details about humanitarian staff working in Gaza.

I feel like people on this board only present things from one perspective so they present it like there is no justification at all for Israel requiring personal details about humanitarian staff working in Gaza.

People on this board are not alone in their view on this and many countries including The UK have spoken out against these organisations being banned so it is in bad faith to insinuate posters here are holding isolated views.

Your view mainly comes from the Israeli perspective and I for one do not believe anything that comes from the current Israeli government. They have been proven to lie again and again and again.

I would also like to know who are the Hamas affiliated sources you are referring to in your quote below?

Well you choose to believe without question everything that comes from Hamas affiliated sources …

MyCatStoleSausages · 06/01/2026 14:35

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KoalaKoKo · 06/01/2026 16:01

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Twiglets1 · 06/01/2026 16:01

HopeMumsnet · 06/01/2026 13:47

Hi all,
Please do get in touch if you have any concerns re the motivations of posters, but absolutely refrain from discussing them on the thread as we consider it goading and a personal attack.
As far as we can see, everyone on this thread is a legitimate MNer (we would take action were that not the case) and we expect you all to behave with civility towards each other, even if you disagree on the matter in hand.

Thank you @HopeMumsnet

I’m a genuine member of the community who just happens to share a different opinion to most people on the CITME board. Across MN generally my views seem much more common as I have seen on recent threads on AIBU & Chat. People have different views & perspectives but on other boards it’s easier to have a civil debate without personal attacks.

I don’t want to be scared away from expressing my personal opinions on CITME as so many others have admitted to being discouraged. There is a reason why it is so rare for someone who is Jewish to post on this board about their experiences & perspective. I’m stepping away from this particular thread but I appreciate your support.

KoalaKoKo · 06/01/2026 16:06

Twiglets1 · 06/01/2026 16:01

Thank you @HopeMumsnet

I’m a genuine member of the community who just happens to share a different opinion to most people on the CITME board. Across MN generally my views seem much more common as I have seen on recent threads on AIBU & Chat. People have different views & perspectives but on other boards it’s easier to have a civil debate without personal attacks.

I don’t want to be scared away from expressing my personal opinions on CITME as so many others have admitted to being discouraged. There is a reason why it is so rare for someone who is Jewish to post on this board about their experiences & perspective. I’m stepping away from this particular thread but I appreciate your support.

No one has attacked you for being jewish that I have seen. Many anti genocide posters are jewish and I have seen threads where they have been attacked and accused of lying about being jewish on the CITME boards by pro Israeli posters. No one has been attacked for their religious beliefs on this thread and it is disingenuous to pretend they have.

Twiglets1 · 06/01/2026 16:43

KoalaKoKo · 06/01/2026 16:06

No one has attacked you for being jewish that I have seen. Many anti genocide posters are jewish and I have seen threads where they have been attacked and accused of lying about being jewish on the CITME boards by pro Israeli posters. No one has been attacked for their religious beliefs on this thread and it is disingenuous to pretend they have.

I didn’t say I have been attacked for being Jewish. I’m not Jewish and have said so several times.

What I said is that there is a reason why it is so rare for someone who is Jewish to post on this board (or stay for long).

It’s not nice when multiple people make personal attacks just for having different opinions & the number of deletions on this thread show how common this has been. Despite being non Jewish myself, I can empathise with why most Jewish people have been scared away from the CITME board.

Boolabus · 06/01/2026 16:53

I must have missed something because I only saw posts suggesting twiglets was spouting Israeli propaganda and considering many posters have been accused of spouting Hamas propaganda, including on this thread, or being accused of supporting Hamas for holding a different view to some posters but when reported you just get a "challenge it on the thread response". Unsure why @HopeMumsnet got involved so directly here? Not saying don't agree with it would just like a bit of consistency.

KoalaKoKo · 06/01/2026 17:25

Boolabus · 06/01/2026 16:53

I must have missed something because I only saw posts suggesting twiglets was spouting Israeli propaganda and considering many posters have been accused of spouting Hamas propaganda, including on this thread, or being accused of supporting Hamas for holding a different view to some posters but when reported you just get a "challenge it on the thread response". Unsure why @HopeMumsnet got involved so directly here? Not saying don't agree with it would just like a bit of consistency.

I questioned it a short while ago and my post was deleted so expect yours to be deleted too. There is a serious double standard - accuse someone of supposedly terrorism and it is debate, accuse someone of supporting Israel and your post is deleted.

Everexpanding · 07/01/2026 15:16

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Maybe time to change your username so you are not hounded and attacked across different threads on mumsnet. Very unpleasant bully like behavior

Ellen2shoes · 09/01/2026 19:57

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I have some.

Twiglets1 · 26/01/2026 17:46

Doctors Without Borders agrees to provide Palestinian staff list to Israel in order to overturn ban

As an exceptional measure, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has agreed to provide Israel with a full list of its Palestinian and international staff in order to be able to resume operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

MSF made the announcement on Saturday, just over three weeks since Israel announced the ban on 37 NGOs from operating in Palestine due to failure to register in time. Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli also claimed that security investigations had determined that employees of certain international organizations operating in Gaza were directly involved in terrorist activity.

MSF initially refused to provide such a list, claiming that it had concerns about the safety of its staff.

www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-884487

Twiglets1 · 26/01/2026 17:52

Hopefully some of the other NGOs refusing to supply the required information will now follow the example of MSF ... it turned out not to be that hard after all.

Ellen2shoes · 26/01/2026 20:06

But critics warn Israel, whose army has killed more than 1,700 health workers – including 15 employees of the charity, also known by its French initials MSF – during the genocide in Gaza, could use the information to target more humanitarian workers in the besieged Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/1/26/anger-as-msf-agrees-to-israels-unreasonable-demands-what-to-know

‘In Gaza, in 2025, MSF alone carried out almost 800,000 outpatient consultations, handled more than 100,000 trauma cases, and distributed over 700 million litres of water. Today, we operate in six hospitals, support seven healthcare centres and four clinics, and run two field hospitals. At the beginning of the year, our teams were supporting one in five hospital beds and the delivery of one in three babies in Gaza. We respond to the daily water needs of over 635,000 people – 30 per cent of the people in Gaza.’

Yes it must have been really easy for MSF to make the choice between endangering their staff or withdrawing this crucial aid. No conflict there at all.

Anger as MSF agrees to Israel’s ‘unreasonable demands’: What to know

Anger as MSF agrees to Israel’s ‘unreasonable demands’: What to know

Medical charity will hand over details of its Palestinian staff to Israel, which targeted aid workers during genocide.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/1/26/anger-as-msf-agrees-to-israels-unreasonable-demands-what-to-know

Twiglets1 · 26/01/2026 20:23

Ellen2shoes · 26/01/2026 20:06

But critics warn Israel, whose army has killed more than 1,700 health workers – including 15 employees of the charity, also known by its French initials MSF – during the genocide in Gaza, could use the information to target more humanitarian workers in the besieged Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/1/26/anger-as-msf-agrees-to-israels-unreasonable-demands-what-to-know

‘In Gaza, in 2025, MSF alone carried out almost 800,000 outpatient consultations, handled more than 100,000 trauma cases, and distributed over 700 million litres of water. Today, we operate in six hospitals, support seven healthcare centres and four clinics, and run two field hospitals. At the beginning of the year, our teams were supporting one in five hospital beds and the delivery of one in three babies in Gaza. We respond to the daily water needs of over 635,000 people – 30 per cent of the people in Gaza.’

Yes it must have been really easy for MSF to make the choice between endangering their staff or withdrawing this crucial aid. No conflict there at all.

MSF agreed to provide staff details following extensive discussions with its Palestinian colleagues according to The Jerusalem Post.

MSF says that 15 of its workers have been killed since October 2023.

Israel, however, claims that MSF maintained active ties to designated terrorist organizations and “practiced advancing an extreme anti-Israeli narrative under the guise of humanitarian activity.”

According to ministry documents viewed exclusively by The Jerusalem Post, an MSF employee in Gaza, Fadi al-Wadiya, was revealed to be a senior operative of Islamic Jihad and an expert in rocket systems, as evidenced in the MSF Belgium report and corroborated by IDF publications. Another staff member, Mahmoud Abu Nejeila, has publicly expressed support for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The documents also said that, “despite repeated and explicit demands,” the organization did not provide full transparency regarding the identities, roles, and activities of those individuals.

This meant that none of the organization’s four branches, MSF Spain, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, provided comprehensive staff lists – including details of Palestinian employees – as explicitly mandated by the registration guidelines.

www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-884487

Ellen2shoes · 26/01/2026 20:32

Missing the point

Twiglets1 · 26/01/2026 20:50

Meh ... MSF are playing ball now anyway and I'm sure we are all pleased that they will be providing healthcare in Gaza & the West Bank despite their earlier posturing.

Pretty obviously they know that they aren't really endangering their staff just by providing Israel with their names and personal details. And the staff know it too or they wouldn't have agreed to it.

Still time for a few other NGOs to backtrack as well and remember their priority should be providing humanitarian aid.

Ellen2shoes · 26/01/2026 22:00

Israel has killed 1700 health workers, 15 of them MSF staff.
Your response - ‘meh’
No more to say to you.

Twiglets1 · 27/01/2026 06:17

Ellen2shoes · 26/01/2026 22:00

Israel has killed 1700 health workers, 15 of them MSF staff.
Your response - ‘meh’
No more to say to you.

The Meh comment was in response to you saying I was missing the point.

MSF have decided they will meet the new requirements & continue to work in Gaza after all.

Even if we agree on little else we should both be pleased about that. I for one hope some of the other NGOS on the list follow their example.

FairPearlSnake · 30/01/2026 18:39

From the article:

“Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday it will not submit lists of staff demanded by Israel to maintain access to Gaza and the West Bank after failing to receive assurances over the safety of its teams.”

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“MSF says it will not share staff details demanded by Israel to access Gaza”
Olivia Le Poidevin
Reuters
https://apple.news/ANSc9bEZyQOSwrnaUqD4Y4Q
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MSF says it will not share staff details demanded by Israel to access Gaza — Reuters

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday it will not submit lists of staff demanded by Israel to maintain access to Gaza and the West Bank after failing to receive assurances over the safety of its teams.

https://apple.news/ANSc9bEZyQOSwrnaUqD4Y4Q

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