Three humanitarian aid ships are due to arrive in the Gaza Strip on Monday
A maritime convoy of three ships carrying hundreds of tons of aid for Gaza left the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Saturday, DW reports.
The flotilla has been organized by two charities — the US-based World Central Kitchen and the Spanish group Open Arms.
"We're sending shelf stable and ready-to-eat food and a special delivery of dates provided by the UAE for Palestinians observing Ramadan," World Central Kitchen said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
World Central Kitchen said on its website that, to date, its teams have provided more than 43 million meals by land, sea, and air to Palestinians facing starvation.
Earlier in March, the organization shipped more than 200 tons of food to communities in northern Gaza in the first maritime aid delivery.
The US-headquartered humanitarian NGO said that, in that first operation, it had managed to build their own jetty in Gaza using rubble, to safely unload cargo.
The Palestinian territory has no harbor facility and the US armed forces are constructing a large floating dock for the delivery of aid.
