Aid deliveries for the suffering civilian population are now also arriving in the Gaza Strip by sea. A British Navy dock landing ship launched from Cyprus arrived in Egypt on Tuesday.
Last week, after lengthy negotiations, the Israeli government gave the green light to a humanitarian maritime corridor in the Mediterranean. Israeli security experts controlled the port of Larnaca. The biggest problem initially was how to prevent aid and other goods from falling into the hands of the terrorist Hamas.
But eventually the government in Jerusalem gave the green light. There is approximately 90 tonnes of relief equipment on board the dock landing ship RFA Lyme Bay, including thermal blankets, tents and ten tonnes of medicine. The relief supplies will now be delivered to the Rafah border crossing in the south of the Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian Red Crescent.
Since the start of the Gaza War, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has steadily deteriorated and is now considered catastrophic. According to the Palestinian aid organization UNRWA, almost 1.9 million people are on the run – more than 80 percent of the population. There is a lot of international criticism of Israel’s actions.
Israel expects the war to continue for “many months.”
As the Israeli military expands its ground operations against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the situation continue in the background. However, Israel’s chief of staff expects the war to continue for “many months.” Hamas, which sparked the war in the Gaza Strip with its October 7 terror wave that left more than 1,200 dead, also wants to continue fighting.
Source: Krone
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