{"id":314469,"date":"2025-12-31T15:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=314469"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:44:03","slug":"ohchr-statement-31dec25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ohchr-statement-31dec25\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Human Rights Office: Outrageous suspension of numerous aid agencies from Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>31 December 2025<\/p>\n<div class=\"node-field\">\n<p class=\"text--eyebrow node-field__label node-field__label--large\">Delivered by: UN Human Rights Chief Volker T\u00fcrk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-field\">\n<p class=\"text--eyebrow node-field__label node-field__label--large\">At: Geneva<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Israel\u2019s suspension of numerous aid agencies from Gaza is outrageous.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest in a pattern of unlawful restrictions on humanitarian access, including Israel\u2019s ban on UNRWA (the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East), as well as attacks on Israeli and Palestinian NGOs amid broader access issues faced by the UN and other humanitarians.<\/p>\n<p>I urge all States, in particular those with influence, to take urgent steps and insist that Israel immediately allows aid to get into Gaza unhindered. Such arbitrary suspensions make an already intolerable situation even worse for the people of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>I remind the Israeli authorities of their obligation under international law to ensure the essential supplies of daily life in Gaza, including by allowing and facilitating humanitarian relief.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Content:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/secretary-general-2jan26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suspension of Non-Governmental Organization Operations in Occupied Palestinian Territory Risks Undermining \u2018Fragile\u2019 Ceasefire Gains, Secretary-General Warns \u2013 Question of Palestine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/53-international-ngos-warn-israels-recent-registration-measures-will-impede-critical-humanitarian-action-non-un-document\/\">53 International NGOs warn Israel\u2019s recent registration measures will impede critical humanitarian action (Non-UN Document) \u2013 Question of Palestine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/iasc-statement-31dec25\/\">Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Statement, Revoke planned international NGO ban, humanitarian leaders urge Israeli authorities &#8211; Question of Palestine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 31 December 2025 Delivered by: UN Human Rights Chief Volker T\u00fcrk At: Geneva Israel\u2019s suspension of numerous aid agencies from Gaza is outrageous. This is the latest in a pattern of unlawful restrictions on humanitarian access, including Israel\u2019s ban on UNRWA (the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ohchr-statement-31dec25\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1338],"document-source":[1825],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,2005,1741,5200,5362,6891],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-314469","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-statement","document-source-office-of-the-united-nations-high-commissioner-for-human-rights-ohchr","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-ngo-civil-society","document-subject-unrwa","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314615,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314469\/revisions\/314615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=314469"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=314469"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=314469"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=314469"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=314469"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=314469"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=314469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}