RAMALLAH, February 9, 2025 (WAFA) – The Government Communication Center released a brief report today, Sunday, outlining the key field interventions carried out by ministries and official institutions in collaboration with partners in the Gaza Strip over the past week.
These efforts are coordinated through the Government Operations Room for Emergency Interventions in the southern governorates (Gaza Strip), which was established to coordinate and oversee urgent relief efforts, address the aftermath of the Israeli aggression, and lay the groundwork for the comprehensive reconstruction plan.
The Operations Room is managing a range of field interventions, with Government teams and partners in Gaza working to open roads, clear the rubble, provide clean drinking water, and restore essential services such as communication, education, and healthcare, among other humanitarian interventions. These efforts aim to facilitate the return of displaced Palestinians and ensure their safety.
Ministry of Social Development:
Collaborating with the Palestine Tomorrow for Social Development to establish 10 new camps for displaced individuals in Gaza and northern areas.
• Distributing food parcels and hygiene kits to thousands of displaced families across various areas.
• Providing 300 cubic meter of clean drinking water in partnership with Action Against Hunger in Gaza and northern Gaza.
• Deploying the Gaza Mental Health Program’s primary psychological first aid team to offer mental health support to returning individuals in Shujaiya, in coordination with Juzoor for Health & Social Development.
• Opening three major roads and removing 270 cubic meters of solid waste in cooperation with the same organization.
• Coordinating with Partners to launch water well projects in the Attatra area of northern Gaza.
• Assisting over 70 displaced individuals, including children and the elderly, who were separated from their families while returning from the south. They have been provided temporary shelter at al-Jazeera Club until reunification with their families.
• Finalizing an agreement with UNICEF to recruit 50 volunteers to facilitate aid distribution in various areas.
Palestinian Water Authority
• Supplying 20,000 cubic meters of water daily to Gaza City and 14,000 cubic meters to Khan Younis Governorate, as well as ensuring access to clean drinking water in populated areas.
• Repairing and operating seawater desalination plants in the central and southern regions, including the Bassa station, which has a production capacity of 2,000 cubic meters per day.
• Conducting daily water quality monitoring and distributing chlorine to water facilities via a mobile laboratory.
• Distributing 180 cubic meter of drinking water by tankers, alongside 1,200 cubic meters to shelters and sites for displaced persons.
• Repairing sanitary sewers in northern Nuseirat and Khan Younis, and relocating electrical panels and generators from water facilities in Rafah until maintenance work is completed.
• Restarting the Saudi Reservoir water well in City of Rafah and resuming operations at the Sikka water well in southern Gaza as part of ongoing efforts to gradually restore water services.
The Arab and International Organization to Construct in Palestine, in coordination with the Ministry of Public Works & Housing and the Arab and Islamic Funds Authority
• Implementing road repair and rubble removal projects at several locations, including main roads and roundabouts.
• Distributing 750,000 liters of clean drinking water across the Gaza Strip.
• Preparing tender documents for the al-Zein and al-Hessee wells in Jabalia, each expected to produce 90,000 liters of water per hour.
• Rehabilitating the laboratory and blood bank building at the al-Shifa Medical Complex and supplying it with 50 oxygen cylinders.
• Receiving 1,300 new tents for displaced persons, with thousands of temporary tarpaulins already distributed in northern Gaza.
• Providing 10,000 hot meals daily at displacement centers, along with 100 cubic meters of water per day.
Energy Authority and Electricity Distribution Company
• Conducting field inspections at Gaza's only power plant, assessing damage to fuel tanks, control panel, and power lines to determine repair needs.
• Carrying out damage assessment and identifying required materials for resuming operations, currently stored in the Energy Authority's warehouses in Jericho, pending entry approval into Gaza.
Ministry of Public Works and Housing
• Finalizing guidelines and procedural policies for damage assessment, rubble removal and management, and providing shelter to ensure coordinated efforts among institutions.
• Coordinating field teams efforts to assess shelter sites proposed by local authorities.
• Deploying eight field teams in collaboration with municipalities and various ministries and institutions.
• Approving six temporary shelter sites in Beit Hanoun (82 dunams) and one in Bani Suhaila (14 dunams).
• Proposing eight rubble storage sites in coordination with the Land Authority.
• Conducting field inspection for 36 sites to identify suitable sites for sheltering displaced persons in collaboration with the Arab and International Organization to Construct in Palestine and UNDP.
• Clearing debris from parts of Salah al-Din Street, Al-Rashid Street, as well as from key intersections.
• Distributing 150,000 liters of clean drinking water in the north and 200,000 liters in the south.
Ministry of Education and Higher Education
• Meeting with education sector partners to discuss a phased plan for resuming education: a 42-day initial phase followed by a five-month second phase.
• Expanding in-person education while continuing e-learning for over 290,000 students in the Gaza Strip.
• Assessing damaged schools in the central and southern directorates and submitting a priority list to the Ministry of Public Works and Housing.
• Providing the Government Operations Room with GIS maps showing the distribution of public schools, UNRWA schools, and private schools to facilitate planning for shelter centers.
• Assessing needs of schools near proposed shelter sites.
• The Ministry has completed the third session of the General Secondary Examination for Gaza students abroad this week, with 560 students setting for the exam across 22 countries.
• Reviewing plans for developing educational platforms to ensure education continuity in the Strip.
• Collaboration with international partners to provide 7,000 tablets for distribution to students in Gaza, along with school bags and educational kits.
Ministry of Health
• Agreement with the Jordan deliver medical aid next week.
• Collaboration with China to facilitate the entry of and establish a mobile field hospital in Gaza.
• Preparation of 68 trucks loaded with advanced medical equipment, including CT scanners, as well as medical consumables, ready for immediate dispatch once aid entry is permitted.
• Coordination with local and international organizations to provide prosthetic rehabilitation for the injured and provide necessary equipment.
• Compiling and finalizing lists of the medical delegation set to be deployed to Gaza to support hospitals and medical centers.
• Receipt and distribution of medical supplies, including 4,000 medicine packages from Jordan and 450 health kits from the Red Crescent, to affected people across the Gaza Strip.
Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Economy
• Working with international partners to restore and expand essential telecommunications services provided by telecom companies.
• Repairing damaged towers, restoring at least 30% of mobile network coverage following the destruction of 85% of towers by the Israeli aggression.
• Restoring 84 exchanges to re-establish landline telephone services in southern Gaza.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Arab and Islamic Funds Authority, in coordination with the Ministry of Public Works and Housing
• Held a coordination meeting with relevant authorities for debris removal in Gaza and the northern governorates.
• Designed a post-recovery education support program in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, UNRWA, UNICEF, and the UN Population Fund.
• Purchased of 2,000 tablets for Tawjihi (high school) students, while seeking additional funding to acquire more devices.
• Arranged to supply hospitals in Gaza with essential medicines, especially cancer treatment drugs, in partnership with Direct Relief and the Palestinian American Medical Association.
Ministry of Agriculture
• Providing agricultural supplies, including fertilizers, to 150 greenhouse farmers in the central and Khan Younis governorates through the Agricultural Development Association (Palestinian Agricultural Relief).
• Distributing water transport lines to 127 farmers in the central governorate.
• The Ministry of Agriculture in the southern governorates has signed utilization contracts for the Emergency Assistance Project, benefiting 180 farmers in Khan Younis and the central governorates. The project aims to provide farmers with agricultural inputs to enable them to cultivate their lands and restore agricultural productivity.
• Starting to distribute concentrated feed and barley, with each livestock farmer receiving 250 kg of concentrated feed and 50 kg of barley. This initiative targets 2,500 livestock breeders.
• Holding Several meetings with partners, including the Higher Emergency Committee in the southern governorates, to discuss urgent humanitarian interventions related to the return of displaced persons. Key partners include Oxfam, ANERA, and the Natuf Organization for Environment & Community Development.
• Developing damage assessment forms to assess agricultural damages.
• Deploying field teams to inspect shelter centers in all five governorates of the Gaza Strip.
• A total of 20 cubic meters of fresh water has been distributed to displaced persons.
• Launched a campaign to remove debris and open roads in Gaza, covering a distance of 1000 meters, in collaboration with the Natuf Organization for Environment & Community Development, supported by the "Work for Humanity" Organization.
Ministry of Transport and Communications
• Participating in the Gaza Shelter Committee, with engineers assessing shelter sites and ensured their readiness to accommodate displaced persons for displaced persons.
