Management Advisory: Review of the DoD’s Roles and Responsibilities for Facilitating the Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Through the Maritime Corridor (Report No. DODIG[...]

Management Advisory: Review of the DoD's Roles and Responsibilities for Facilitating the Delivery of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Through the Maritime Corridor (Report No. DODIG-2025-054)

Audit

The objective of our review was to assess the effectiveness of the DoD's efforts to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Our original intent was to conduct a two phased review of the DoD's role in the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza through the maritime corridor, which included the DoD's Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) capability and the Port of Ashdod in Israel.

The first phase was intended to focus on the DoD's roles and responsibilities, and the second phase was intended to focus on the effectiveness of the DoD's execution of those roles and responsibilities. However, because the last shipment of humanitarian aid to Gaza through JLOTS occurred 2 days after we announced our review, we were only able to observe a limited amount of humanitarian aid delivery operations.

As a result, this management advisory includes the DoD's roles and responsibilities, as well as the results of our limited observations of humanitarian aid delivery operations.