CPJ joined 103 global organizations in a letter calling on Israel to stop weaponizing bureaucratic registration rules that have prevented most major international non-governmental organizations (INGO) from delivering a single truck of lifesaving supplies into Gaza since March 2, while Palestinians starve.
Millions of dollars’ worth of food, medicines, water, and shelter items lie stranded in warehouses as registration requirements, introduced in March, allow Israel to deny aid on the basis of “vague and politicized criteria,” the letter said. The new rules could force many INGOs to halt operations in Gaza and the West Bank and remove all international staff within 60 days, it said.
CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah added that Gazan journalists are “facing the same starvation as the communities they report on. With food blocked and aid agencies sidelined, even reporting the truth has become a matter of survival. Since 2023, at least 184 journalists have been killed in Gaza, according to CPJ’s data. Without urgent action, hunger and repression will silence what bullets have not.”
Read the full letter here.
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