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I'm Sean Lay.
Israel's plan to revoke the licenses of 37 international non-governmental organisations who distribute aid in Gaza and the occupied West Bank has been condemned by the European Union and the UN.
Israel says the group's concern have failed to supply details of the Palestinian personnel they employ.
It says it wants to prevent aid being exploited by Hamas.
The UN's human rights chief Volker Turk called the ban,
due to come into force on the 1st of January, outrageous.
The EU said it would prevent life-saving assistance reaching Palestinians.
Action Aid, the International Rescue Committee,
Metzal Son Frontier and the Norwegian Refugee Council are among those who will now have 60 days to wind up their operations aiding Palestinians.
Alex Skander, a spokesman at the Israeli Embassy in the UK, spoke to news hours James Menendez.
many of these organizations, if not all of them,
have not vetted the workers, the local Palestinian workers.
And they were the Palestinian Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad has been using these organizations in order to cover themselves.
Yeah, I mean, MSF does reject those accusations.
They call them unsubstantiated saying they'd never knowingly employ anyone engaged in military activity.
I truly believe that they had no idea
because they don't have any mechanism to check and vet their employees.
Well, Athena Rayburn is executive director of ADA.