Gaza aid

  • Gaza aid loaded onto ship in Cyprus

    Aid for Gaza is being loaded onto a ship in Cyprus and will be delivered using a US pier. Containers are being stacked on the US flagged Sagamore, which is docked at the port of Larnaca, and some containers to the ship are labelled as aid from the United Arab Emirates. “We are completing the…

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  • UN appoints Gaza aid coordinator

    The UN announced the appointment of a coordinator to oversee humanitarian relief shipments into Gaza. It comes as part of a UN Security Council resolution adopted on Friday to boost aid.  Sigrid Kaag of the Netherlands will be the senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza and will start the role on 8 January the UN…

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  • UN Security Council agrees resolution to speed up Gaza aid – but omits call for urgent ceasefire

    The UN Security Council has voted for a resolution to speed up aid to Gaza – but left out a call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities”. It instead includes a commitment to “create conditions for the sustainable cessation of hostilities”. Thirteen members voted in favour, while the US and Russia abstained. The vote happened…

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