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A comprehensive report today to present a full picture of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip

2026-07-10

In light of the attempts by Hamas and other parties to misrepresent the humanitarian situation in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire, COGAT is publishing a comprehensive report today to present a full picture of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip to the international… pic.twitter.com/c6HhPZLqNw
— COGAT (@cogatonline) July 9, 2026

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In light of the attempts by Hamas and other parties to misrepresent the humanitarian situation in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire, COGAT is publishing a comprehensive report today to present a full picture of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip to the international community. The report is based on information received from international organizations, the UN, online reports, and studies conducted by professionals and experts in the humanitarian field.

The data in the report is clear and does not leave room for any doubt - the humanitarian situation has been stable since the start of the ceasefire, and the volume of aid that has entered Gaza far exceeds humanitarian needs.

Read full report here.

Report alleges NGOs exploited Gaza suffering to raise funds, dismissed antisemitism claims

A taste:

[IsraelTimes] Survey of current and former staffers at humanitarian organizations by new advocacy group raises accusations of bias and efforts to shape an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian narrative around Gaza

International humanitarian and human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
groups neglected antisemitism complaints from staffers, exploited suffering in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
for fundraising and sought to shape an anti-Israel narrative around the Gaza war, according to a report released this week.

The 63-page report by the new advocacy group EiGHT called for significant changes to the non-governmental organization (NGO) system, arguing that the sector has vast influence but little external oversight.

"They themselves call for transparency and accountability and speak out on behalf of people’s freedoms of expression," Israeli Danielle Haas, one of EiGHT’s lead organizers, told The Times of Israel. "We consider this to be entirely in line with their own mandate and principles."

Haas was a senior editor at Human Rights Watch for 14 years, left after the start of the Gaza war, and has been a critic of the NGO sector since.

Haas wrote in Jewish journal Sapir in 2024 about her experience at Human Rights Watch. After the article came out, other Jewish and non-Jewish NGO staffers contacted her to report similar experiences, forming an informal group of around 70 that coalesced into EiGHT, which is in the process of acquiring nonprofit status in Geneva, Haas said.

EiGHT based the report on interviews with around 70 staffers or recent employees of international NGOs, as well as internal documents from the organizations. The employees and documents came from groups including Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International and Amnesty International Australia. The groups did not respond to requests for comment.

EiGHT compiled the report for the Australian government’s investigation into antisemitism, launched in response to last year’s Bondi Beach massacre.

Many of the names and organizations were kept anonymous due to "fear of retaliation," the report said.

The report said its key findings included a lack of consequences for antisemitism complaints, inconsistent standards, a lack of transparency, exclusion of Jewish staff, retaliation against staff who raised concerns, and a disregard for Israeli and Jewish victims.

ANTISEMITISM ALLEGATIONS BRUSHED ASIDE
The report said that antisemitism in the sector was "barely acknowledged," with alleged anti-Jewish discrimination often reframed as political disagreement. The threshold for action on antisemitism complaints was often "effectively impossible to meet," the report said.

The report contrasted the response to previous movements, like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, when discrimination complaints led to significant action. Jews who reported antisemitism were instead met with "skepticism and dismissal," the report said.

A non-Jewish employee of Amnesty International Australia said that after the Bondi Beach massacre last year, there was a tendency in the group "to frame efforts to address antisemitism as attempts to restrict criticism of Israel."

An Amnesty International Australia staffer reported a "disturbing rise in anti-Zionist ideology," with the term "Zionist" used as a pejorative. Jewish NGO staffers said their views were treated with suspicion over alleged political motivations, or that antisemitism concerns were treated as interpersonal conflict, a communication issue, or political disagreement, instead of discrimination.

"The conversation never becomes: ’What happened, and why did this employee experience it as antisemitic?’ Instead, it immediately becomes: ’But what is antisemitism really? What about Zionism? What about Gaza?’" one NGO staffer said. "You end up circling the drain of definitions while nothing is actually investigated."

Leaders of some NGOs privately agreed with complaints from Jewish staffers, but did not take public action, apparently "for fear of appearing ’pro-Israel,’" the report said.

Some of the staffers said that NGO leaders automatically coupled antisemitism with Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
, lessening the focus on Jews.

Weeks after the October 7, 2023, Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
attack, the UK director of Human Rights Watch wrote to colleagues, "Can I just check that we are addressing Islamophobia in our product on antisemitism?"

"It’s important in any product on antisemitism that we address both," she wrote, the report said.

"Anti-Jewish bias and prejudice have become embedded in parts of the organization’s culture and decision-making," a non-Jewish employee of Amnesty International Australia said. "I am deeply concerned that these patterns have contributed to a culture that tolerates and even justifies violence and intimidation toward Jews."

Other staffers quoted in the report said that NGOs had embraced far-left activist paradigms, such as post-colonial theory and romanticizing the "Global South," and characterized the rhetoric as "slogans without substance."

On the internal messaging platform for Doctors Without Borders, employees said, "The fight for freedom... is about liberating the world from the grip of Zionism," called Israel a "76-year-old scene of the crime," dismissed rape allegations made against "Paleostinian resistance fighters" as "propaganda," and said, "Stop playing the Jewish card." Israel was called a "racist, Nazi and genocidal state."

"Jewish employees raised concerns openly at first. Then less often, then not at all. In time, they were all gone," said an employee of an international rights group.

The findings are in line with two previous surveys that also found widespread antisemitism in humanitarian and nonprofit groups.

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