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Two-hundred tonnes of food aid were "ready" to be sent from Cyprus to Gaza by sea, a Spanish NGO said Saturday, the first shipment along an EU-backed maritime corridor.
A spokesperson for Open Arms, a charity whose boat docked three weeks ago in the Cypriot port of Larnaca, said "everything will be ready to be able to set sail" later Saturday.
"Depending on all the authorizations and permits, and when we get them," the vessel - also called Open Arms - could embark "today or tomorrow," Laura Lanuza told AFP.
The Spanish aid group has partnered with U.S. charity World Central Kitchen to prepare the first aid delivery via the sea route that the EU Commission hopes will open this weekend.
Lanuza said Israeli authorities, which have welcomed the Cypriot initiative, have already begun inspecting the cargo of "200 tonnes of basic foodstuffs, rice and flour, cans of tuna."
(Cover: Smoke billows above buildings following an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese border village of Majdal Zoun on March 9, 2024. /CFP)