Gaza Strip: For the first time a ship full of food has started to Israel for a year

Food for Gaza, finally also by sea. For the first time for a year, a ship full of food aid for the population of the Gaza Strip It is sailed from Cyprus to the Israeli port of Ashdod. It is an important fact because since in July 2024, the floating pier built by the United States to facilitate the entry of the aid has been abandoned, ships of this type have no longer arrived. This is the first time that it happens again.

The boat, with the Panamense flag, transports 52 containers with about 1200 tons of food genres including pasta, rice, flour, childhood products and canned products. More than half of the aid was provided by the government of the United Arab Emirates through the Amalthea Fund, created in 2023 to encourage aid by sea. The rest comes from Maltese, Italian and Kuwaitian humanitarian organizations. The content has already been controlled by Israeli agents before the departure of the ship from the Cypriot port of Limassol and the content will be distributed by United Nations operators and by the non -governmental organization World Central Kitchen. “The contribution of all the subjects involved is fundamental and their incredible commitment,” commented the Foreign Minister Cipriota Constantinos Kombos, atAssociated Press. “The situation is much more than desperate.”

Also in this case, the load covers only a minimum part of the needs of the population of the Gaza Strip, where the humanitarian crisis has already been called “catastrophic” by many international agencies, including the United Nations. More than 200 hunger people from the beginning of the war are more than 200. “I don’t know how to define it if not in mass hunger, and it is caused by man, this is very clear,” said the director of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, during a press conference from Geneva. In a letter over 109 agencies, including doctors without borders, Oxfam International and Amnesty International, they denounced that it is the Israeli government that prevent humanitarian organizations from distributing life -saving aid. “We have food. We help, “said Bushra Khalidi of Oxfam asking for an immediate fire. “Yet we cannot deliver them. And the reason is simple: the Israeli authorities block us ».

The army of the Government of Netanyahu, which occupies 75% of the territory of the Gaza Strip, meanwhile has Required about 60 thousand reservists recalled, After the approval of the total military occupation plan of the strip starting from Gaza City. In the plans apparently there is no respite. The request is to present itself on service on September 2nd.