Open Arms’ director and founder Oscar Camps has said he is determined to keep the deliveries going despite the significant danger to his team from the ongoing Israeli bombardment.

He urged other “more powerful, wealthy states and organisations” to do the same using a new maritime corridor from Cyprus to the stricken enclave.

Camps, who was onboard the salvage vessel that left Cyprus on March 12 for a 320km voyage across the eastern Mediterranean to Gaza, described the perilous sea conditions that complicated the delivery to a makeshift jetty, and the significant danger to delivery teams on land.

Camps said it took seven hours to move a barge roped to the ship to a jetty made from destroyed buildings and rubble for it to be unloaded in rough seas.

“People are eating grass there and they are bombing as you disembark food,” he told Reuters in Badalona, a city north of Barcelona on the Spanish coast.

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