Situation Report - 22nd January

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CONTENTS

1. HIGHLIGHT

2. BORDER CROSSING

3. LOGISTICS COORDINATION

4. CIVIL/MILITARY COORDINATION

1. HIGHLIGHT

This afternoon the first meeting chaired by the Coordination Office for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), was held in Tel Aviv. As of yesterday the COGAT assumed the responsibilities from the JHCC for coordinating humanitarian affairs in Gaza.

2. BORDER CROSSING:

• Sufa: remaining closed
• Kerem Shalom: open.
• Nahal Oz (for fuel): open
• Karni: open for conveyor belt only (bulk wheat). IDF informed that Karni will be closed tomorrow 23rd January for maintenance of the conveyor belt.
• El Aouga (Egypt): open half day for humanitarian cargo. Although, it was reported that, only trucks with the adequate custom documentation and with a party ready to receive the goods and immediately dispatch ex Nitnaza, were allowed to cross the border.   

IDF informed that they are aiming at augmenting the crossing capacity for Kerem Shalom up to 150 trucks per day and for Karni up to 100 truckloads.

Daily updates on cargo

crossing at the different crossing point for Gaza

3. LOGISTICS COORDINATION:

Today the Logistics cluster facilitated the crossing of 9 trucks for 4 organizations (namely IRFAN –Canada, CHF, MAP-UK and Norwegian Church Aid). Additional Cargo Movement Requests (CMRs) were received today by 13 different organizations for delivery in the coming days.

Please find below a consolidated table of cargo facilitated by the Logistics Cluster so far.

• The Logistics Cluster is participating in other cluster meetings to enhance inter cluster cooperation. Today staff from the Logistics Cluster participated in the WASH and HEALTH cluster meetings held in Ramallah. The cluster is kindly reminding to the other cluster leading organizations to participate to the Logistics Cluster meetings.
• A CMR for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) cargo, namely 42 pallets of blankets (4,200) of in El-Arish on 21 January. The first lot of 22 pallets were marked and departed to El-Aouga on 22 January.
• Mercy Corps/Reach Out Asia cargo has arrived on 22 January. In the morning, 7 trucks (4 carrying pasta and 3 carrying flour) arrived and currently at the Stadium. An additional 3 trucks of flour are en route from Cairo.
• With regards to the MREs donated by the charity organization supported by HRH Prince Turki bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud to hospitals in Gaza, they have crossed from the El-Aouga border into Nitzana coordinated by WFP and WHO.
• The Logistics Cluster Meeting in El-Arish was held today. The final SOPs, the latest border crossing developments and the upstream pipeline updates were shared. Minutes of the meeting will be soon circulated.

4. CIVIL/MILITARY COORDINATION:

• As of today all coordination for humanitarian affairs in Gaza will be taken over by COGAT, although between relief actors there still some confusion on how the system is going to work.
• The COGAT however, informed that they will continue to the prefer the Logistic Cluster coordinating system that had been established with the JHCC in which the Logistics Cluster  will  be the lead for consolidating, prioritizing, and coordinating movement requests for international agencies (except UNRWA and ICRC) based upon priorities decided by the Humanitarian Coordinator.