Overview
- Responding to a petition from 17 organizations, the court issued a provisional order that lets international aid groups keep operating in Gaza and the West Bank while it studies the case.
- Israeli authorities had planned to bar 37 NGOs by March 1 for not complying with regulations requiring full staff lists and detailed information on funding and operations.
- Aid groups argue the rules are invasive and arbitrary and warn expulsions would hinder life‑saving assistance, while MSF and Oxfam welcomed the pause but said humanitarian needs remain critical.
- COGAT says the groups slated for revocation account for less than 1% of total aid entering Gaza and that more than 20 organizations continue after meeting the new requirements.
- Overnight Israeli airstrikes killed at least five people in Gaza, according to local health and interior officials, and aid deliveries to the enclave have fallen in recent weeks.