Attachments
Highlights
- On 03 February, the ETC organized and attended an online meeting with representatives from Ericsson Response, the Government of Luxembourg, and the World Food Programme (WFP) to discuss the status of pre-approval and pre-clearance of the emergency internet deployment kit (also known as the ETC Rapid Response Solution) to establish reliable shared internet services for humanitarian responders in Gaza.
- On 29 January, the ETC team attended an online meeting with the representatives from the Office of the Quartet, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Economy (MTDE), and telecommunications service providers in Gaza. The meeting focused on reviving accumulated fuel shortages and supporting the transportation and distribution of fuel needs to sustain critical communications services across Gaza.
- Following the implementation of the ceasefire agreement on 19 January, the ETC team is collaborating with the WFP Palestine Country Office (CO), the Logistics Cluster, and stakeholders to reinitiate the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) approval request for pending and previously denied items critical for scaling up activities and providing shared communications services for humanitarians in Gaza.