MSF says may have to halt Gaza operations in March

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders calls Israel's demand to provide the list of their employees' names 'scandalous intrusion'

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Banned from the Gaza Strip with 36 aid bodies, medical charity Doctors Without Borders said on Saturday it will have to end its operations there in March if Israel does not reverse its decision.

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres called on Friday for Israel to end a ban on humanitarian agencies that provided aid in Gaza, saying he was “deeply concerned” at the development.

Israel confirmed on Thursday it is barring 37 major international humanitarian organisations from entering the Gaza Strip, accusing them of failing to provide the list of their employees' names, which is now officially required for “security” reasons.

MSF called this demand a “scandalous intrusion” but Israel says is needed to stop militants from infiltrating into humanitarian structures.

“To work in Palestine, in the occupied Palestinian territories, we have to be registered... That registration expired on Dec. 31, 2025,” said Isabelle Defourny, a physician and president of MSF France, on France Inter.