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CONTENTS
1. HIGHLIGHTS
2. BORDER CROSSING
3. LOGISTICS COORDINATION
4. CIVIL MILITARY COORDINATION
1. HIGHLIGHTS
- Erez crossing point was closed today due to the shooting that caused the death of 1 forklift driver. Another 2 drivers got injured and are now hospitalized in Israel.
- The Logistics Cluster held its 3rd meeting today in Jerusalem that was attended by 46 participants representing 34 different organizations between UN, local and international NGOs. ICRC as an observer was present at the meeting.
2. BORDER CROSSING:
- As a consequence of the Erez incident, cargo crossing into Gaza from Erez was suspended.
- Additionally, a truck drivers strike is planned for tomorrow 9th January in Gaza to raise the issue of drivers’ safety and security. This means that no cargo is expected to enter the strip tomorrow.
- Today 9th January, 89 trucks crossed Kerem Shalom up to the Palestinian side of the crossing.
- UNRWA announced that tomorrow they will suspend all its activities in Gaza until the deteriorating safety and security of humanitarian workers will be addressed.
3. LOGISTICS COORDINATION:
- The third logistics cluster meeting was held today in Jerusalem to discuss cluster partners logistics bottlenecks. Three major bottlenecks as been so far identified, namely:
- coordination with Israeli Defence Force( IDF)
- movement from West Bank into Gaza
- movement within Gaza.
Detailed minutes of the meeting will be distributed shortly and made available on the logistics
cluster web page ( www.logcluster.org/gaza09a)
- The Logistics Cluster offered to partners to facilitate the coordination with Israeli authorities for the deliveries of cargo into and within Gaza as well as providing a logistics Information sharing platform for the humanitarian community.
- Three additional Logistics Officers have been deployed to Egypt to support and monitoring the cargo moving into Gaza from the Rafah corridor and will liaise with the Logistics cluster in Jerusalem, where another Logistics officer will join the team.
4. CIVIL MILITARY COORDINATION:
- A Logistics Cluster staff attended today the MOFA Coordination Cell was established today in Tel Aviv. Humanitarian community operational issues were raised with the Israeli authorities.
- Israeli authorities informed that ceasefire experienced yesterday from 1 to 4 pm will be maintained daily but confirmed on a daily basis.