delivery music instruments in Gaza, Nablus and Ramallah: alternative scenarios needed?

I follow the situation in Gaza and the Westbank more closely than ever via the media and I wonder whether we will succeed to get through with our music instruments this time. If ever things get worse in the territories and we would at the last minute have to decide not to deliver ourselves the music instruments which are meant for our partner schools there, we will then be able to store them in Nazareth and in Jerusalem for some time. That is what we have been able to organise with our Belgian Consulat and with our partner in Nazareth, the Orpheus Foundation. I am checking now with Israeli customs to see whether that would mean that we would be obliged to then pay import-taxes on all instruments, also those not meant to stay in Israel. I hope not. I also hope that all this will not have to be implemented, as I want to do all I can to be able to deliver the instruments in person - Pol De Winter and I - to our friends in Gaza, Nablus and Ramallah, not only to our partners in Mizra and Nazareth. Ramzi Abu-Radwan - the artistic director of the music school Al Kamandjati in Ramallah - just called me to assure that I should not give up. He tells me about a festival of baroque music which Al Kamandjati has organised the last days in Ramallah and today even in Gaza and that - although there were indeed fights between Hamas and Fatah in the streets of Ramallah and Gaza - people came in great number to these concerts, as if they wanted to show how important such concerts are to them in these difficult times. Ramzi asks me not to give up on bringing the instruments ourselves, because it will allow us to meet with our friends in Ramallah, Nablus and even Gaza, something which would be very appreciated by all. The second delivery is also for them out there even more important then the first one last January. I must admit to you that for our Gaza delivery we have already several weeks ago considered to not personally deliver the instruments we donate to the Qatan Centre for the Child there. Our Belgian Consulat in Jerusalem proposed us that they would store those instruments in the Consulat for some time and then deliver them in our name at a later stage when things quiet down. I did not at all give up on going to the Westbank though, but now want to prepare alternative scenarios in case going there in January seems unsafe. We have to consider different possible scenarios. It is true that the situation out there is most of the time much less unsafe and worrisome than depicted in the media in Europe. Since I will already arrive in the region one week before the planned delivery, I will be able to make last-minute evaluations and decisions.