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Aid ships back in Larnaca
The sea convoy, consisting of the 'Jennifer' and the 'Open Arms' with 240 tons undelivered food for Gaza returned to Larnaca on April 3 after the killing of aid workers of World Central Kitchen (WCK) in an Israeli airstrike on the evening of April 1. The 'Jennifer' dropped anchor just outside the port. The 'Open Arms' had already arrived earlier. The undelivered aid was part of a consignment of about 340 tonnes sent to Gaza from Cyprus on March 30. The aid workers killed in Gaza had just finished work unloading 100 tonnes from a barge, also sent from Cyprus. The WCK, active in Gaza since October, has paused operations in the territory after the killings, and turned around its flotilla of ships back to Cyprus. Report with photo: https://gcaptain.com/gaza-aid-ships-return-to-cyprus-after-ngo-worker-deaths/
Aid ships returning to Larnaca after deadly air strike on WCK employees
The "Jennifer" as well as the tugs "Open Arms" and "Ledra Dynamic" returned to Larnaca on April 2, 2024, after the death of seven employees of World Central Kitchen in the Gaza Strip in an airstrike. Only a barge carrying around 110 pallets of goods was unloaded in the Gaza Strip before the aid convoy was attacked on the mainland. The 'Jennifer' then set sail without having accomplished anything. The ship had around 250 tons of relief supplies on board. The aid organization immediately stopped its operations in the region in light of the fatal incident. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the attack on foreign aid workers in the Gaza Strip and spoke in a video message of a "tragic case of an accidental hit by our armed forces against innocent people in the Gaza Strip." The Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulidis and EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola, who met in Nicosia on the morning of April 2, strongly condemned the incident, but also pleaded that aid to the suffering population in the Gaza Strip should not suffer as a result. Report with photo: https://www.gmx.net/magazine/politik/tod-helfern-schiff-bringt-hilfsgueter-zurueck-zypern-39500376
Barge off Gaza unloaded
The unloading of almost 200 tons of humanitarian aid transported by the 'Open Arms' to the coast of the Gaza Strip was completed on March 16. The NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK), responsible for the operation, has reported the start of the distribution on the Gaza coast. The ship had arrived on the coast of the Gaza Strip on March 15 on the pilot trip to try to establish a maritime humanitarian corridor called Operation Amalthea. The NGO founded by the Spanish chef José Andrés was already preparing a second shipment of humanitarian aid from Larnaca with 240 more tons of food, although at the moment there was no date for the departure of the 'Jennifer'. WCK manages, in collaboration with Gazan organizations, 60 community kitchens in the Gaza Strip that prepare food for the population. The 'Open Arms' was back in Larnaca on March 18 at 12.20 p.m.
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