Aid ship sets sail from Cyprus to Gaza as thousands face starvation

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>An aid ship loaded with some 200 tonnes of food has set sail from Cyprus to Gaza&comma; the international charity behind the effort said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The shipment is a test for the opening of a sea corridor to supply aid to the territory&comma; where starvation is spreading five months into the Israel-Hamas war&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>World Food Kitchen&comma; the charity founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres&comma; posted on the X social media platform that a ship set sail on Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Live footage from the Associated Press showed the ship being towed out of a harbour in the port city of Larnaca&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US has separately announced plans to construct a sea bridge near Gaza in order to deliver aid&comma; but it will likely be several weeks before it is operational&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The five-month-old war that was triggered by Hamas’ October 7 attack in southern Israel has killed over 30&comma;000 Palestinians and driven some 80&percnt; of Gaza’s 2&period;3 million people from their homes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;181689" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-181689" style&equals;"width&colon; 630px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;03&sol;D0F611EA-E346-4D69-9D89-462B8E751687&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"630" height&equals;"357" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-181689" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-181689" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Image taken from video shows a ship belonging to Spanish aid group Open Arms&comma; background&comma; and an aid barge docked at Larnaca port<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The UN says a quarter of the population is starving&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The attack that sparked the war killed around 1&comma;200 people&comma; and militants took around 250 hostage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Aid groups say it is nearly impossible to deliver aid in much of the territory because of Israeli restrictions&comma; ongoing hostilities and the breakdown of law and order after the Hamas-run police force largely vanished from the streets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Conditions are especially dire in northern Gaza&comma; which has suffered widespread devastation and been largely cut off by Israeli forces since October&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Up to 300&comma;000 Palestinians are believed to have remained there despite Israeli evacuation orders&comma; with many reduced to eating animal feed in recent weeks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Monday&comma; the first day of the normally festive month of Ramadan&comma; children with pots lined up at a charity kitchen in the urban Jabaliya refugee camp&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Each was given a small portion of cooked carrots and sweet potatoes to break the dawn-to-dusk fast&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our children can’t find anything to eat&comma;” said Bassam al-Haw&comma; a volunteer&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No food&comma; no water&comma; no flour&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The planned sea route has the support of the EU&comma; the US&comma; the UAE and other countries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US and other countries have also launched airdrops of aid in recent days&comma; but such efforts are costly and unlikely to meet mounting needs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Once the Open Arms ship nears Gaza&comma; two smaller vessels will tow the barge to a jetty that World Central Kitchen is building&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>World Central Kitchen then plans to distribute the food in northern Gaza&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Organisers said the jetty will be outside of northern Gaza but declined to provide further details&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Andres told The Associated Press in a brief interview on Saturday evening that they want to keep the location secret to prevent large crowds from disrupting the delivery&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Scores of Palestinians were killed last month during a chaotic aid delivery in the north organized by Israeli troops&comma; who fired on the crowd&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Israel said most of those killed were trampled to death&comma; while Palestinian officials said most had been shot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Israel&comma; which controls Gaza’s coastline and all but one of its land crossings&comma; says it supports efforts to deliver aid by sea and will inspect all cargo before it sets sail for Gaza&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e64ab489351">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; 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