Gaza Herald – Euro-Med Monitor issued an urgent call as the ceasefire takes effect, demanding that international humanitarian organizations relocate a substantial portion of their operations to Gaza and the North Gaza governorate in anticipation of hundreds of thousands of displaced people preparing to return to their homes.
The Geneva-based monitor warned that the north has become the epicenter of the Strip’s gravest humanitarian emergency, with infrastructure almost wiped out and virtually no functioning relief presence on the ground, and said humanitarian actors must rebalance capacity now to avoid a man-made catastrophe.
Euro-Med singled out the scale of need in the north, where, it says, nearly 90% of infrastructure is destroyed, residential neighbourhoods lie in rubble, and basic services are collapsed, and urged agencies to shift resources from central and southern hubs to urgent relief projects: food distribution, water and sanitation repair, medical teams, and rubble-clearing and shelter support to receive returnees safely. The statement named core UN and NGO actors, including WFP, UNICEF, UNRWA, WHO, OCHA, WCK, MSF, IRC and others, and told them the north must no longer be treated as a secondary theater of operations.
Euro-Med Monitor warned that any Israeli restrictions on the movement of humanitarian teams would doom relief efforts and urged host states and mediators to guarantee unimpeded access and protection for aid workers.
The organization pledged full operational cooperation, offering to exchange information and coordinate deployment, and framed the repositioning of aid to the north as not a tactical choice but an urgent moral imperative to prevent further civilian killed, disease, and starvation as people return amid ruin. Humanitarian groups have repeatedly said that full, rapid access is essential for aid plans to succeed.
The appeal comes against a broader backdrop of denunciations from rights monitors that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza amounts to systematic destruction and grave rights violations; Euro-Med and other bodies have repeatedly characterized the campaign’s effects in terms that point to crimes against civilians.
The monitor warned that failing to reposition aid now, and to enforce guarantees of safety and freedom of movement, risks turning the ceasefire’s fragile promise into a dead letter while thousands more are exposed to the immediate dangers of returning to a territory without hospitals, water, or shelter. The international humanitarian community was urged to act immediately to prevent a preventable surge in killed and suffering.
