Sea Line Test, Humanitarian Aid Ship Successfully Landing In Northern Gaza

Humanitarian Aid Ship Landing in Gaza (Photo: x.com/WCKitchen)

GAZA - Friday, March 15 yesterday, an aid ship docked on the north coast of Gaza. The ship was the first to come with aid shipments, from several planned series.

Launching Antara, the shipment was a sealine test from the Port of Larnaca, Greece, in the Greek Cypriot government, to Gaza to supply aid to Palestinians under international scrutiny, including the US and the European Union.

The witness told Anadolu that small ships began to unload aid from a ship called Open Arms, and moved it to the Gaza City coast.

Jose Andres, chef of the World Central Kitchen charity group, said on platform X: "Today @WCKitchen reaches 37 million meals in Gaza."

He added "On the same day we hope to finish our dock and lower 200 tons for trials before bad weather. So far 2 crates have been sent from the barge @openarms_fund. But there is much more to be done in the next few hours...".

There is no information on how the assistance will be distributed.

Work is underway to build a temporary dock off the coast of Gaza to receive humanitarian supplies for the trapped enclave.

Landways are blocked

World Central Kitchen on Tuesday (12/3) said that Open Arms sailed from Larnaca to Gaza, as the first sea trip from a humanitarian maritime corridor to send aid to Gazans.

The group sent contains about 200 tons of food, including rice, flour, canned food, and more.

The maritime corridor is a new mechanism for sending aid to Palestinians in Gaza, as Israel still refuses to open land crossings with Gaza.

Israel has launched a deadly attack on Gaza since the cross-border attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The attack has killed more than 31 thousand victims and injured more than 73 thousand others amid mass destruction and a shortage of basic necessities.

Israel also implemented a blockade that paralyzed the Palestinian enclave, causing its residents, especially residents of northern Gaza, to be on the verge of starvation.

About 85 percent of Gaza's population was forced to flee as a result of Israeli attacks amid food shortages, clean water and medicines, while 60 percent of infrastructure in the region had been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.

Israel is accused of committing genocide at the International Court (ICJ), whose transient decision ICJ in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocide and take steps to ensure humanitarian aid is provided to civilians in Gaza.