Israel Tells Doctors Without Borders to End Its Work in Gaza

Old_Joe

Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:

The move against the medical aid group enforces policies limiting criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war and requiring personal details about Gazan employees.

Doctors Without Borders, the international medical aid group, said Tuesday that Israel had ordered it to cease operations in the Gaza Strip after it failed to comply with new restrictions that include registration of all Gazan employees and limits on criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war.

“If we can’t work, it will have catastrophic consequences for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians,” said Claire San Filippo, the group’s emergency coordinator for Gaza.

The group was told on Sunday that it could no longer bring supplies into Gaza and told on Tuesday that it could no longer bring doctors, nurses or other international aid workers into the territory. She said it was given until the end of February to cease all activities in Gaza and pull out all its international workers.

Israel said the measure was to prevent militants from infiltrating aid groups. Doctors Without Borders and other NGOs refused to comply, saying the demand flouted international law and violated workers’ privacy rights as well as European data-protection rules the groups were legally obligated to follow.

Doctors Without Borders was among more than three dozen humanitarian groups told on Dec. 30 that they would have their licenses to operate in the Gaza Strip suspended on Jan. 1 and would have to clear out by March under the new rules. Now, Israel is moving to enforce that.

Comment:   I'm certain that @FD1000 will fully support this action.

Crash

Ceasefire, eh? hey, Bibi: blow me.