Israel has turned humanitarian aid in gaza into a massive problem for itself - legally, politically, and permanently. Right, so Israel has now made humanitarian aid conditional, and that decision has closed off all of its escape routes by default. Thirty-seven aid organisations are being barred or suspended, including Doctors Without Borders, and they’re being made to own that decision. Doctors, midwives, trauma teams, sanitation crews — the people who keep civilians alive when everything else has already failed — are being removed by rule, not by chance. This isn’t just about a new registration scheme or a compliance spat that can be tidied up later either. It locks in a direction Israel has been moving toward for months, where neutrality is tolerated only until it becomes inconvenient, and aid is allowed only on permission. When access works li ...