Five rights organisations have asked Israel’s Supreme Court for an interim order barring the Israeli government from preventing aid from entering Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

The groups, which include Israeli human rights nonprofit Gisha, said the move violates Israel’s obligations under international law and amounts to a war crime: “These obligations cannot be condition on political considerations,” the petition said.

In a separate post on X, Gisha said:

“Israel is once again using its control over all of Gaza’s crossings to deny access for humanitarian aid, obstructing critical items, including food, medicine, fuel, and shelter equipment, as a weapon of war against the civilian population, in violation of its obligations under international law. Denying critical supplies to two million people, half of whom are children, constitutes a war crime.”