This boat is carrying around 200 tonnes of food (rice, flour, canned goods, etc.) which must be distributed in the Palestinian enclave, which is in the grip of famine.
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Heading for Gaza. A humanitarian aid boat “left” from the Cypriot port of Larnaca, Tuesday March 12, around 7:50 a.m. (French time), to deliver food to the Palestinian enclave on the verge of famine, using a maritime corridor between Cyprus and the Gaza Strip. This is the first time since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7 that aid has been delivered by sea.
L’Open Arms, a ship chartered by the Spanish NGO of the same name, which usually intervenes in the Mediterranean to rescue migrants, transports around 200 tonnes of food (rice, flour, canned goods, etc.). This food aid is to be distributed in Gaza by World Central Kitchen, which has had teams on site since the start of the war and was responsible for building a jetty to unload the cargo.
Faced with the insufficiency of aid arriving by land in the territory devastated by more than five months of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, aid is dropped by air and will now also be able to be transported by sea route thanks to the opening of this corridor between Gaza and Cyprus, located some 370 km away.
