A second boat loaded with humanitarian aid ready to leave for Gaza from Cyprus. A first ship from an NGO delivered 200 tonnes of food.
The second boat could arrive in Gaza as early as Sunday. The UN fears widespread famine in this besieged Palestinian territory, the scene for more than five months of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. The boat will use the maritime humanitarian corridor opened from the Cypriot port of Larnaca and used for the first time by the ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms.