…. Humanitarian aid has provided a range of essential supplies, including foodstuffs, medical equipment, fuel and cooking gas, and domestic electrical appliances, to residents of the Gaza Strip.
Chart 4 demonstrates the sharp increase in the volume of shipments from the international community following Operation Cast Lead.
Chart 4**
Donations from the international Community (shipments)
The following figures demonstrate the high level of aid entering the Strip during the three-week period following the Operation (as of February 7, 2009): 4,915 shipments of humanitarian aid (123,663 tons) from the international community; 169 new donation applications were submitted to Israeli customs -134 applications were approved during the three week period following the Operation. In the following months (by mid-May), approximately 250 additional donation applications were submitted, of which roughly 80% were approved. In addition, until the end of February 2009, Israel’s Ministry of Health put in place special procedures to expedite the transfer of all food, medicine and medical equipment into the Gaza Strip, Thus, a mechanism for solving blockages in the transfer of aid was decided upon and approved by all the relevant official parties in Israel.
The Gaza Strip has received humanitarian donations from a number of different sources, including NGOs and international relief agencies, the private sector, and the international community. A total of 25,935 trucks carried donations from NGOs, international relief agencies and the private sector from January 1, 2008 to December 28, 2008, amounting to 629,393
31 ** As of May 17.2009.
13 of these donations were intended for the West Bank,
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