Aid organizations say they are still facing major obstacles operating in Gaza and other Palestinian territories, despite Israel’s Supreme Court suspending a ban that had restricted their work, a director at one of the charities said Monday.
Israel in December said it was banning 37 non-governmental organizations unless they provided detailed information on their Palestinian staff, in a move humanitarian organizations warned would further curtail already inadequate aid to Gaza.
Israel's Supreme Court in February froze that ban, theoretically allowing the NGOs to continue working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank until a final ruling.
But foreign "staff continued to be rejected, supplies continued to be rejected", said Alan Moseley, Danish Refugee Council director for the Palestinian territories.
He said almost no international NGO targeted by the Israeli ban had managed to transport aid into Gaza in recent months.
