1. United States
2. Letter

Fifteen major international aid organizations are jointly demanding an immediate and comprehensive arms embargo on Israel, citing its systematic obstruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza. As the brutal assault persists, Israel's military forces continue impeding humanitarian access, confiscating relief supplies, destroying infrastructure enabling aid delivery, and perpetrating documented attacks on aid workers and civilian facilities where displaced people have taken shelter. This relentless disruption violates international humanitarian law and prevents essential assistance from reaching 1.5 million civilians trapped in the besieged territory amidst acute food, water, and medical shortages. The aid groups assert an arms embargo is the only viable measure to compel Israel's compliance with its legal obligations and ensure the protection of Palestinian civilians. Unless Israel halts its undue obstruction and enables uninhibited humanitarian access, the catastrophic impacts on Gaza's population will only worsen. As respected purveyors of emergency aid to conflict zones, these 15 organizations unequivocally state their inability to uphold their humanitarian mission in Gaza under the current circumstances imposed by Israel's military actions enabled by international weapons transfers. An immediate and comprehensive arms embargo against Israel's protracted violence remains imperative to end this systematic obstruction of life-saving aid.