The United Nations and aid groups have warned that humanitarian operations in the Palestinian territories, particularly Gaza, are at risk of collapse if Israel does not lift impediments that include a ‘vague, arbitrary, and highly politicised’ registration process.
Dozens of international aid groups face de-registration by December 31, which then means they have to close operations within 60 days, said the UN and more than 200 local and international aid groups in a joint statement.
“The deregistration of INGOs (international aid groups) in Gaza will have a catastrophic impact on access to essential and basic services,” the statement read.
“INGOs run or support the majority of field hospitals, primary healthcare centres, emergency shelter responses, water and sanitation services, nutrition stabilisation centres for children with acute malnutrition, and critical mine action activities,” it said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the US was sanctioning two judges of the International Criminal Court for targeting Israel, raising the number of senior court officials under US sanctions to 11.
“Today, I am designating two International Criminal Court (ICC) judges, Gocha Lordkipanidze of Georgia and Erdenebalsuren Damdin of Mongolia, pursuant to Executive Order 14203,” Rubio said in a statement, referring to an order President Donald Trump signed in February sanctioning the ICC.
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