(Patria) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called on Israel to lift the ban on humanitarian agencies that had been providing aid in Gaza, saying he was "deeply concerned" by the move.
Guterres "calls for the reversal of this measure, stressing that international NGOs are indispensable for life-saving humanitarian work and that the suspension risks undermining the fragile progress achieved during the ceasefire," his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement, as reported by AFP.
"This recent action will further worsen the humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians," he added.
Israel on Thursday suspended access to the Gaza Strip for 37 foreign humanitarian organizations after they refused to share lists of their Palestinian employees with government officials.
The ban includes Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which has 1,200 staff members in the Palestinian territories, most of them in Gaza.
The NGOs covered by the ban have been ordered to cease their operations by March 1.
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