In light of the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe resulting from the ongoing war on Gaza, there is an urgent need to establish a robust and scalable logistical mechanism to ensure the sustained delivery of humanitarian assistance and commercial goods to the 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip.
The Humanitarian and Trade Corridor (the “Corridor”) is conceived as a strategic initiative to meet this critical need by facilitating the flow of aid and trade into Gaza, while laying the foundations for its long-term recovery and reconstruction.
The study outlines the streams of aid and trade that the Corridor needs to facilitate, and the components of the Corridor – logistical hubs and crossing points. It provides estimates for the required capacities of these components, analyzes bottlenecks across these logistical chains (infrastructures, constraints, procedures and other factors), and suggests logistically, economically and politically feasible solutions.
Based on this analysis, the study proposes the development of a master plan, to be built in phase II of this project.
Lead authors: Shaath Ali , Gal Yitzhak, Khader Mohammad