Dozens of international aid organizations have made a final appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court to prevent a de facto ban on their operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, set to take effect in early March. The 37 international groups — including Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders — collectively provide more than half of all food assistance in Gaza; operate the majority of field hospitals; and run all inpatient treatment for children suffering severe acute malnutrition.

This comes amid a surge of violence by Israeli soldiers and settlers targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday night, settlers set fire to vehicles and tents in the Palestinian village of Susya. This is resident Ahmed al-Nawajeh.

Ahmed al-Nawajeh: “We were shocked when around 30 settlers arrived. They were carrying incendiary materials and burned this tent and that one. They burned the chicken coop. They burned all the furniture; they left nothing.”