  {"id":209973,"date":"2006-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=209973"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:51:41","slug":"auto-insert-209973","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209973\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA) &#8211; Twelfth bi-weekly implementation report (OCHA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Twelfth Report<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Implementation of the Agreement on Movement and Access<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong>(15 &#8211; 28 April 2006)<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Âé¶¹APP<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;is submitting the <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">twelfth bi-weekly report on the implementation of the 15 November Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA), covering the period 15 &#8211; 28 April 2006 inclusive.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The Office of the Quartet&#8217;s Special Envoy closed on 28 April and the Âé¶¹APP has assumed reporting responsibilities on the implementation of the AMA.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:7pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8226; Rafah was open daily during the reporting period.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8226; Karni was open nine days during the reporting period. On 26 April, Karni was closed at 12.30pm following an attempted attack at the crossing by Palestinian militants which was thwarted by Palestinian security personnel. On 19 April, Karni crossing was open only for importation of aggregates. The daily average number of exported truckloads during the reporting period remained low, at 5.1 per day.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8226; Kerem Shalom was opened for the import of essential food commodities from Egypt on 23 March. In this reporting period, the crossing was open for eight days, during which a total of 79 truckloads of flour, sugar, and rice were imported into the Gaza Strip. On 26 April, the last of the earmarked 281 truckloads of humanitarian assistance originating from Egypt was received. No goods have been exported through Kerem Shalom.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8226; Erez has been closed to Palestinians since 12 March coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Purim. There is no indication as to when it will reopen. As such, no workers or traders crossed into Israel via Erez during the reporting period.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8226; The deadline for the introduction of truck convoys between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank passed on 15 January. Discussions of bus convoys have not yet resumed.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8226; According to OCHA, the number of obstacles to movement in the West Bank increased slightly from 496 to 504. OCHA compiles several times a year a comprehensive count of physical obstacles to Palestinian movement in the West Bank. The figures reported here are based on OCHA field observations only.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8226; The GoI has not provided the assurance to donors that it will not interfere with the operation of the seaport.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&#8226; <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">There have been no discussions on the airport during the reporting period.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">____________<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:5pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><sup>1 <\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;For further information please contact Francine Pickup or Catherine Osborn, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), tel: 02 582 9962.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelfth Report Implementation of the Agreement on Movement and Access (15 &#8211; 28 April 2006) The Âé¶¹APP&nbsp;is submitting the twelfth bi-weekly report on the implementation of the 15 November Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA), covering the period 15 &#8211; 28 April 2006 inclusive.The Office of the Quartet&#8217;s Special Envoy closed on 28 April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209973\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[5873,5872,1329,1323],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,5358],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-209973","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-ama-implementation-report-see-also-entity-listing-quartet-special-envoy","document-category-implementation-report","document-category-press-release","document-category-report","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-ClosuresCurfewsBlockades","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=209973"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=209973"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=209973"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=209973"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=209973"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=209973"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=209973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}