Aid shipments to Gaza from Cyprus are expected to resume soon, officials said this afternoon, after they were stopped last week when Israel killed seven aid workers.
Cyprus has about 1,000 tonnes of aid destined for starving or severely hungry people in Gaza stored on the island.
It is being held there after a decision by World Central Kitchen to pause and review activity in the territory after the deaths of its workers on 1 April.
The US plans to set up a dock, with a target date of 1 May, on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to enable aid deliveries.
The deliveries will be pre-screened in Cyprus with Israeli oversight.
With that jetty in place, Cyprus expects aid to resume soon, Cypriot president Nikos Christodoulides said.
Gaza faces famine and widespread disease, with nearly all its inhabitants now homeless in the six months since Israel’s military operation started.
Three sons of Hamas leader ‘killed in strike’
Three sons and three grandchildren of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, according to the Hamas-affiliated news agency Shehab.
Sky News contacted the IDF but they could not confirm the reports.
