AFP footage showed the Open Arms, which set sail from Cyprus on Tuesday, towing a barge that the Spanish charity of the same name says is loaded with 200 tonnes of food for Gazans threatened with famine after more than five months of war.World Central Kitchen, the US charity working with Open Arms, said it was readying another boat with supplies of beans, canned meat, flour, rice and dates in the Cypriot port of Larnaca but stressed the need for more road access to bring aid into Gaza.
A spokesman for the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry said early today that 123 people had been killed across Gaza in the past 24 hours, including 36 people in a strike on a house sheltering displaced people in central Nuseirat.Witnesses reported air strikes and fighting in the southern Gaza Strip’s main city Khan Yunis as well as areas of the north where humanitarian conditions have been particularly dire.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he had approved the military’s plan for an operation in Rafah, where most of the Gaza Strip’s population has sought refuge, without providing details or a timeline. Hamas would want this to lead to “a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and a permanent ceasefire”, the official said.
“We’re cautiously optimistic that things are moving in the right direction,” Kirby said, adding that the Hamas proposal was “within the bounds” of what negotiators had been discussing in recent months. “God willing, they will bring food for the children, that’s all we ask for”, displaced Gazan Abu Issa Ibrahim Filfil told AFPTV.
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