Fruits and vegetable freezer storage in the state of Palestine Note: This project has been cancelled, because of bankruptcy of the applicant.The partners have identified the need for a cold store facility with the service for rental to smaller scale farms. The project will be implemented in Hebron. The applicant is Abu Jabal Fruits Ltd, an Israeli company that offers similar services to farmers in Israel (occupied Golan). The local partner is Al Sarsour Investment and Trading company from Hebron that is active in trading of fruits and vegetables. The partners will establish a joint venture company for the project. The project will rent its capacity for 50% to third party small and medium scale farmers who get an opportunity in this way to store their product for a longer time and in this way get better revenue (higher prices). The project answers to a bottleneck in the post-harvest handling of Palestinian fruit and vegetables, that was identified in the CBI value chain analysis for the sector.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)The partners intend to provide good working conditions and salaries for the future staff. The joint venture company will be ISO 9001 certified. Part of the electricity will be produced by solar panels that are part of the investment. The partners did initially not think about the environment friendliness of the cooling agent. They will, however, at least comply with Palestinian and Israeli regulations on this point but if feasible they will apply EU approved technology.Impact•	Employment and working conditionsThe partners intend to pay the workers at least at living wage level. The fringe benefits will be minimal but the working conditions will be good.•	Innovation / Transfer of knowledgeThere is a large deficit of cold storage space in the Palestinian territories. This is confirmed by the Value Chain Analysis for the Palestinian horticultural sector, recently made by CBI. The cold stores that exist are owned by large production/trading companies for their own products. The project will rent storage to small and medium scale farmers for 50% of its capacity. They will be able to offer their products to the purchasers off season and command better prices. The transport service is not entirely new but the transport vehicles will be more adapted to the transport of fruits and vegetables.•	Chain effectsImpact on local suppliersInitially, the only local supplier will be the electricity company so the impact on this point will be limited.Impact on local customers or consumersThe customers will be local farmers and the project will have considerable impact on the profitability of their operations as their sales volume will increase and the prices they will receive for their products will be better.•	Impact on the sectorThe partners intend to provide internships to students of the polytechnic university. As the sales volume of farmers that can be handled in the Palestinian Territories increase, the trade volumes of other traders, apart from the local partner, is also likely to increase.•	EnvironmentAs the waste generated will be minimal, this will be disposed of in an environmental friendly way. The project will install a pilot unit of solar panels: this will make the electricity consumption of the project partly from renewables.•	Position of womenPositive.•	Impact on food safetyPositive. The goal of the project is to establish a cold store facility for fruits and vegetables in Hebron with a capacity of 2,700 m3 divided over 6 compartments. Part of the six compartments will be used for long and medium storage with the use of ethylene gas.