A second boat loaded with humanitarian aid is ready for an imminent departure from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip, the Cypriot authorities announced on Saturday March 16. Foreign Ministry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis told public radio that the ship, named “Jennifer,” was ready to depart. “today or tomorrow”. It will use the maritime humanitarian corridor opened from the port of Larnaca and used for the first time on Friday by the ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms. Follow our live stream.
All cargo from first aid boat to arrive in Gaza unloaded. The cargo of the first humanitarian aid boat, which arrived in the Gaza Strip from Cyprus on Friday, has been unloaded and will be able to be distributed to the population, threatened with famine after more than five months of war, the NGO said on Saturday responsible for the operation. “All cargo has been unloaded and is being prepared for distribution to Gaza”wrote World Central Kitchen in a press release sent to AFP.
The UN is calling for delivering humanitarian aid by land. “Beyond the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza by air and sea, the UN stresses that only land transport would make it possible to deliver the necessary aid to Gazans, who are on the brink of famine.wrote on the international organization. In a video, the UN explains in particular that airdrops are expensive, have limited capacity and can be dangerous, while Gaza’s port infrastructure is unsuitable for accommodating large ships.
36 deaths from the same family, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, 36 members of the same family were killed at dawn on Saturday during a “bloody night” marked in total, according to him, by 60 air strikes by the Israeli army. “They bombed the house while we were inside,” in the Nuseirat refugee camp, Mohammad al-Tabatibi, 19, told AFP. The Israeli army, for its part, claimed to have targeted “several terrorists entrenched” in the same Nuseirat camp. However, she did not confirm being behind the strike that killed this family.
NGOs denounce “systematic abuses” against Palestinians in Israeli detention. Israeli prisons contain a record number of Palestinians, subjected to “systematic abuse” and sometimes torture, denounce Israeli NGOs, calling on the international community to act. Members of these organizations traveled to Geneva this week to highlight a “crisis” major in the country’s prisons, where, according to them, nine people have died since October 7.