Relief organizations complain about Israel's refusal to issue or renew visas for their employees. Some aid workers who applied for visas were ordered to leave the country, with no information about when they might be able to return.
Granting visas to international aid workers is not expected to immediately ease the suffering in Gaza, but the visa freeze has left 15 organizations without managers in Israel. While the norm was to grant one-year visas to UN employees, most are now granted for two months, most often, and one month for spouses and children.