ISRAEL’S new registration rules for organisations providing humanitarian aid to people in Gaza risks leaving hundreds of thousands without lifesaving healthcare in 2026, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned today.

The new requirements threaten to withdraw registration from international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) from January 1.

This non-registration would prevent humanitarian organisations from providing essential services to people in Gaza and the West Bank, MSF said today.

“With Gaza’s health system already destroyed, independent and experienced humanitarian organisations losing access to respond would be a disaster for Palestinians,” MSF said.

The international medical charity called on Israel to ensure that INGOs can maintain and continue their work in Gaza, saying the already restricted humanitarian response cannot be further dismantled.

“In the last year, MSF teams have treated hundreds of thousands of patients and delivered hundreds of millions of litres of water,” MSF emergency co-ordinator for Gaza Pascale Coissard said today.

“MSF teams are trying to expand activities and support Gaza’s shattered health system. In 2025 alone, we carried out almost 800,000 outpatient consultations and handled more than 100,000 trauma cases, and if we obtain registration, we plan to continue strengthening our activities in 2026.”

Meanwhile, the Israeli military killed three people in Lebanon today in an air strike on a car in the Sidon district, 30 miles south of the capital Beirut.

The Israelis claimed to be targeting Hezbollah members.

Gaza’s Health Ministry reported the deaths of 12 more people over Sunday night and into Monday. The overall Palestinian death toll has now reached at least 70,937.