Hello and welcome to News Out for the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
Coming up later in the program,
how thieves managed to get away with valuables worth millions of dollars from a German bank vault.
And we'll be touching on some of News Out's highlights of the year.
You know, sometimes you can get a song stuck in your head and you can't get it out.
And I kept hearing that song.
spinning wheel.
I said to David, I'm going to sing it and he would don't do it next year.
Buddy, don't do it.
That was Nicholas Cage on the late filmmaker David Lynch.
More of our highlights of 2025 coming up in the second half of the program.
But we are going to begin in Gaza, because from tomorrow, Thursday,
Israel is set to ban 37 international aid organisations working there,
and also the Occupied West Bank.
The list includes some of the biggest names in humanitarian aid, including Akshene,
the International Rescue Committee, Med Sans Frontier, and the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Israel says they failed to comply with new registration requirements,
including providing full details of their local Palestinian staff.