Tug "Open Arms" set sail from the Cypriot port of Larnaka on Tuesday and is carrying a platform with around 200 tons of relief supplies. The food would be enough for 37 million meals, wrote WCK boss José Andrés on X.
The ship's mission is considered a pilot project to improve supplies for more than two million people in the Gaza Strip. According to Unicef, one in three children in the northern part is acutely malnourished.