תזכיר: תוכנית בתיאום האו״ם לחידוש משלוחי הסיוע ההומניטרי לעזה

התרגום העברי יעלה בקרוב

The United Nations and its humanitarian partners (national and international non-governmental organizations) have a clear, principled, and operationally sound plan ready to deliver large-scale, in-kind humanitarian aid and life-saving services across the Gaza Strip. We have the personnel, distribution networks, systems, and community relationships in place to act without delay and in a way that ensures aid is delivered directly to civilians in need, and without diversion. This plan to resume humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza is ready to be implemented immediately and at the scale necessary to relieve widespread suffering. It is designed to let us work. Critically, 160,000 pallets of UN and humanitarian partner aid (~8,900 trucks-worth) is already positioned and ready to enter Gaza today.

The components of this plan have been presented to Israeli authorities in numerous and ongoing engagements and form the foundation for continued dialogue with all relevant stakeholders. It sets forth a basis for ensuring that a range of necessary humanitarian assistance can reach civilians across all areas of the Gaza Strip through the most direct, safe and efficient routes, without diversion. It reflects well-established, proven practice and includes additional new measures aimed at bolstering existing good practices.

Background

Adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence, the plan is based on globally tested and effective modalities and decades of operational experience and trusted engagement to bring life-saving assistance to affected communities in Gaza. This operational framework builds on the UN and humanitarian partners’ existing systems to ensure assistance reaches beneficiaries and that aid is not diverted. It adheres to internationally recognized humanitarian best practice, and advances the mandate given to the UN in Gaza through UN Security Council Resolutions, including Security Council Resolution 2720 (2023[1]), which ensures transparency, trust, and accountability in our response. 

It strengthens the approach that has allowed the UN and humanitarian partners to deliver principled humanitarian aid throughout Gaza since 2023 and supported the system-wide scale-up immediately after the 2025 ceasefire was announced. The UN and its humanitarian partners were responsible for 35 per cent of the total aid brought into Gaza during the ceasefire, utilizing existing and robust accountability mechanisms.

Since the onset of the war in Gaza in October 2023, the 2024 and 2025 Flash Appeals for the Occupied Palestinian Territory have mobilized significant financing from Member States that have enabled the UN and humanitarian partners to deliver life-saving assistance to civilians in need. These appeals, developed through a unified effort by humanitarian community, encompass not only material assistance but also critical life-saving services. 

Overview

To address the urgency and scale of humanitarian needs in Gaza, this plan requires a holistic package of goods and services. In addition to food, this plan includes supplies and support to medical facilities and nutrition programmes, shelter, protection, education, non-food items (NFIs), production and distribution of clean water, protection programming – including for children, people affected by gender-based violence, and persons with disabilities, and students, among others. 

The plan and beneficiary identification are aligned with the full package of independently assessed needs, priorities and monitoring and impact assessments by the UN and its humanitarian partners.

Building on existing strategies, this delivery plan is structured around five stages, building on existing resources, personnel, and the UN and humanitarian partners longstanding operational footprint in Gaza. Each stage includes clear, actionable requirements to ensure predictable, principled, and accountable aid delivery that reaches civilians wherever they are located.

Stage 1 | Delivery of aid to Gaza Cargo proposed for entry is submitted through an online platform, managed by the UN 2720 Mechanism. The Israeli Authorities reviews these submissions prior to entry into Gaza. Each consignment is assigned a unique QR code to enable tracking. UN 2720 monitors would be deployed at key inspection points along the aid corridors, including in Jordan, Egypt, and at both the Israeli and Palestinian sides of Kerem Shalom and Erez/Zikim crossings (as well as any other crossings opened for aid entry). Cargo in these corridors will be facilitated by the UN’s humanitarian Logistics Cluster, as required.

Stage 2 | Inspection/scanning of aid at the crossing points 

Two points of verification take place before the cleared aid enters the Gaza Strip. First, UN 2720 monitors verify manifests and validate the consignments’ unique QR code. Second, trucks are scanned to ensure only the cleared humanitarian materials are loaded (manifest verification). Cleared consignments are transferred to dedicated staging areas at the crossing points managed by the UN on behalf of the humanitarian community. While use of Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings is necessary, at minimum, to ensure aid deliveries to northern and southern Gaza, the UN and humanitarian partners will advocate access via all available crossing points.

Stage 3 | Transporting aid from crossing points to humanitarian facilities for onward distribution (first mile delivery)

Using existing coordination mechanisms, the UN’s humanitarian Logistics Cluster facilitates cargo dispatched from a crossing with the Israeli Authorities and the UN 2720 mechanism. This ensures transparent and unified oversight tracking of dispatched cargo. As the ‘first mile’ of the delivery chain is the most vulnerable to looting and robbery, additional measures have been identified to mitigate risks. Vehicles and trucks departing a crossing carry a GPS tracker for tracking and security. Closed trucks would also be used to reduce the ability of cargo to be taken directly off the trucks before reaching its intended destination. To minimize exposure to high-risk areas for looting, multiple routes should be available for transporting humanitarian cargo from the crossing point, enabling staggered delivery schedules.

Stage 4 | Preparing aid from humanitarian facilities for onward distribution (Humanitarian Facilities)

Aid transported from crossing points is directed to humanitarian facilities located across the Gaza Strip, including in the North and South. The total number of facilities can be adjusted based on space availability, humanitarian needs and operational and geographical requirements. Logistics facilities are designed to meet the needs of 2.1 million people and are placed where people can be reached. The UN and humanitarian partners control the management of the facilities and security arrangements. These UN and humanitarian partner-managed facilities serve as consolidation points for aid entering into Gaza but do not operate as distribution points. Humanitarian facilities ensure that there is adequate stock on hand to respond to urgent and arising needs of the population.

Stage 5 | Transporting aid to people in need (middle - last mile delivery)

From logistics facilities, supplies are transported to distribution points using the established delivery network, leveraging proven methods such as community engagement, distribution lists and minimizing intermediatory staging areas. Humanitarian actors retain exclusive oversight of aid delivery, with specific provisions for vulnerable groups, including women, the elderly, unaccompanied minors, and persons with disabilities—who may face barriers to access if direct distribution is not ensured. The number and location of distribution sites is determined by humanitarian needs and international standards. We assess that a higher number of sites, located closer to affected populations, enhances safety, improves crowd control, and reduces risks of aid diversion and looting by minimizing intermediary travel.

UN 2720 monitors ensure that all humanitarian cargo is tracked from the point of registration to point of delivery (for example, humanitarian facility, warehouse or distribution point, etc.) with data accessible to all relevant stakeholders, including Israeli authorities. These monitors complement Agency-specific monitoring that is ongoing. Monitoring measures, such as household-level distribution planning with de-duplication, distribution schedules, verification at distribution sites, and monthly distribution visits at household level as well as phone-based post-distribution community feedback mechanisms at the level of each humanitarian organization, will be maintained and reinforced. 

Verifying that aid reaches people in need

UN 2720 monitors will ensure that all humanitarian cargo is tracked from the point of registration to point of delivery (e.g., a UN or humanitarian partner’s facility, warehouse or distribution point, etc.) with data accessible to all relevant stakeholders, including Israeli authorities. These monitors complement Agency-specific monitoring that is ongoing. Monitoring measures, such as household-level distribution planning with de-duplication, distribution schedules, verification at distribution sites, and monthly distribution visits at household level as well as phone-based post-distribution community feedback mechanisms at the level of each humanitarian organization, will be maintained and reinforced. 

Augmented measures 

Augmented measures are to be rolled out to strengthen existing mechanisms, including: 

1) Unique identifier: Use digital and physical bag markings to link commodities and high-value cargo to recipient humanitarian partners to allow for greater tracing of both food and non-food supplies; 

2) Data management: Implement beneficiary registration via secure and independent online registration portals, with identification requirements for verification purposes, utilizing UN and humanitarian partner organisations’ management systems; 

3) Distribution cycle: Increase frequency and directness of the distributions to last mile locations, and reduce the volume of commodities and the number of locations where cargo is stored in bulk to reduce risk of looting.

4) Optimization of distribution: Establish joint distribution and service provision locations to align assistance and reduce the number of locations to monitor. 

Monitoring and accountability

The UN and humanitarian partners already use independent third-party monitoring which will be strengthened to verify distributions, and market monitoring is in place to identify potential humanitarian cargo for sale. UN 2720 monitors would carefully review any discrepancies detected in the monitors’ tracking of humanitarian consignments. Unusual or unexplained activity related to aid delivery is immediately escalated within the UN, under the oversight of the UN Humanitarian Coordinator. Where such activity is found to be in breach of principled humanitarian action, the Humanitarian Coordinator can suspend the responsible entity from utilizing the 2720 Mechanism, effectively excluding them from delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. 

Humanitarian services

A core component of humanitarian programming is the delivery of life-saving services to hospitals and health facilities, bakeries, hot meal kitchens, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities, and specialized humanitarian programs. Local food production and livelihood activities are and will continue to be enabled by the UN and humanitarian partners. These services must be maintained and expanded to reach all civilians in need and delivered directly to the relevant facilities, in order to address life-saving needs and resilience.

Services would continue to be managed by humanitarian partners at the community level including the provision of health services, water and sanitation, and protection activities. These services would be supplied through existing distribution systems.  UN2720 Monitors will monitor the delivery of Critical Humanitarian Items (also considered as dual-use by Israel) to their civilian destination, including material and equipment necessary to repair and ensure the functioning of critical infrastructure and to provide essential services. 

Operational Requirements

The ongoing hostilities and repeated displacement orders, including those in areas where humanitarian facilities are located, continue to severely impede the ability of aid organizations to meet civilian needs. Despite these constraints, the UN and humanitarian partners remain committed to adapting their response based on independent needs assessments and evolving conditions on the ground, all with a view to ensure humanitarian aid gets to civilians in need, without diversion.

• The United Nations reiterates its call for an immediate ceasefire, release of all the hostages, and urgent resumption of humanitarian aid.
• As with all humanitarian operations in situations of conflict, this plan requires all parties to the conflict to allow and facilitate rapid, safe, sustained, and unimpeded aid delivery. In the context of Gaza, this includes the need for Israeli authorities to lift access impediments into and within Gaza, simplify and expedite procedures, ensure freedom of movement of humanitarian personnel and supplies, and protect them.
• Any measure of control (e.g. verification of consignments, designation of routes, times, etc.) must not leave segments of the population without essentials for survival.
• Humanitarian operations (encompassing needs assessments, the identification of recipients and delivery of aid and services) remain independent of any party to the conflict or other government and will not seek or receive instructions from them. The UN’s privileges and immunities must be respected.
• Humanitarian operations must not be instrumentalized for political or military aims or to enable violations of international law (e.g. the forcible transfer of the population).
• Humanitarian actors must be granted the necessary approvals from Israeli authorities to operate effectively, including permission for essential equipment and assets such as trucks (including closed trucks), forklifts, spare parts, mobile storage units and laptops. Ownership of these assets is directly linked to operational accountability.
• Sustained and predictable humanitarian flows are essential to reduce desperation that may otherwise lead to the misappropriation of aid, including through criminal networks or looting. At the same time, the support and acceptance of local structures that reinforce public order and safety and social cohesion are vital to maintaining a safe and orderly humanitarian operating environment.
• Humanitarian assistance alone cannot sustain the lives of 2.1million people. Commercial goods must be permitted to enter to provide complementarity to the humanitarian response and support to livelihood creation; commercial activity would not fall within the purview of the UN and humanitarian partner accountability system.

 

[1] Recalling all of its relevant resolutions, particularly resolution 2712 (2023), which, inter alia, demands that all parties comply with their obligations under international law, notably with regard to the protection of civilians, calls for urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days to enable full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access and to enable urgent rescue and recovery efforts, and calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, as well as ensuring immediate humanitarian access. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/security-council-resolution-s-res-2720-22dec2023/