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First ship with aid for Gaza leaves Cyprus port: NGO

Published March 12, 2024
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A ship loaded with 200 tonnes of humanitarian aid for Palestinians in conflict-ravaged Gaza left from Cyprus’s Larnaca port on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the NGO operating the vessel said, AFP reports.

“They have left,” Laura Lanuza from Spanish charity Open Arms told AFP.

The ship embarked on the journey at around 0650 GMT, the first such shipment along a maritime corridor from Cyprus aimed at carrying aid to desperate Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The Open Arms vessel (C), carrying two-hundred tonnes of food aid to Gaza Strip, is seen docked in the Cypriot port of Larnaca on March 11, 2024. — AFP
The Open Arms vessel (C), carrying two-hundred tonnes of food aid to Gaza Strip, is seen docked in the Cypriot port of Larnaca on March 11, 2024. — AFP

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