Israel said on Wednesday that the country’s supreme court had rejected a petition seeking to suspend a government ban on 37 foreign NGOs operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
The Supreme Court gave the organizations 30 days to comply with new screening procedures, including the submission of employee lists “or cease operations,” the government press office said in a statement.
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In the ruling, provided to AFP by a lawyer in the case and issued on Tuesday, the court said, “the petitions are rejected, and the state is allowed to require NGOs to provide identifying information on employees as a condition for registration and operation under the procedure.”
The organizations, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Oxfam, the Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE were notified on December 30, 2025 that their Israeli registrations had expired and that they had 60 days to renew them by providing lists of their Palestinian staff.
