Israel continues to obstruct aid into Gaza

The UN has reported that Israel has rejected more than 130 aid cargo entry requests in October alone. The majority of these rejections affect small organisations that distribute aid.

This follows a pattern. Israeli occupation authorities reject life-saving commodities, such as food, shelter, health and building supplies. They also reject equipment required to deliver vital services at scale, such as generators, solar panels, batteries, and filtration units. And, whilst all this is happening Israeli occupation airstrikes have continued almost daily. 391 Palestinians have been killed and 1,063 injured, as of 14 December.

Israel’s genocide of Palestine evidently involves destroying any avenue of life available to Palestinians.

Israel disrupting aid agencies with airstrikes and shelling

A new snapshot from the Ceasefire Now Coalition is based on information from 45 international and Palestinian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Of these 45 NGOs, 28 operate in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), 37 in Gaza, and 20 across both. These NGOs have reported on their delivery of humanitarian aid between 10 October – the day the so-called ‘ceasefire’ agreement took effect – and 30 November 2025.

More than half the NGOs claimed that airstrikes or shelling still took place near their operations, during this ‘ceasefire’ period. They also said their work has been disrupted by the presence of unexploded ordnance.

Even as 1.3 million Palestinians need emergency shelter as winter sets in, nearly USD 50 million worth of vital aid has been blocked from reaching Gaza, by the Israeli regime. Nearly 4000 pallets of shelter materials have been refused entry to the Strip. This includes at least five million bedding items, 800,000 tarpaulins, 56,000 tents and 29,000 solar lights.

Almost three quarters of surveyed NGOs operating in Gaza affected by restrictions imposed by ‘Israel’

73% of 37 surveyed NGOs working in Gaza reported that they had been affected by restrictions of the Zionist regime, with their vital cargo prevented from entering the Strip

One in four households still only eat one meal a day, and food remains insufficient in quantity and diversity, and unaffordable for most. The occupation has allowed food with very low nutritional value, such as chocolate, sugar, and flour to flow freely into the Strip. But it still continues to intentionally block fruit and vegetables and other nutritious food from entering Gaza. Because high nutritional value food is hard to find, and very expensive still, this is why we are still seeing such high levels of acute malnutrition in Gaza among children.

These restrictions of aid continue as Palestinians in Gaza face a catastrophic situation. A situation brought on by more than two years of genocide, and a famine entirely manufactured by the Israeli occupation. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 52% of essential medications are also completely out of stock. Life saving antibiotics and chemotherapy drugs are also largely unavailable. Meanwhile, many basic supplies, such as surgical gauze, are at zero stock.

Israel blocks aid for a reason

85% of these NGOs said they faced challenges imposed by Israeli occupation forces or settlers in accessing communities. They also reported facing movement restrictions imposed by occupation authorities.

The evidence laid out by NGOs across Gaza and the West Bank points to a clear and deliberate pattern. Beyond the airstrikes, aid blockages, and movement bans lies a strategy designed to break Palestinians capacity to survive. The Israeli occupation’s policy is not only to kill directly through bombardment and deprivation. It is also to drive the remaining Palestinians to leave by making life impossible.

The systematic denial of food, medicine, fuel, and shelter are measures that violate every standard of humanitarian law. They are intentional. These are extreme tactics, aimed at dismantling Palestinian society.

A ceasefire that allows starvation, displacement, and daily bombings and killings is no ceasefire at all. The international community must move away from its mere statements of concern. It needs to now take concrete measures that protect civilians and enforce humanitarian law. Otherwise this Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people will continue. Every day of inaction increases the harm to Palestinians, while emboldening ‘Israel’ even further.

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