{"id":343998,"date":"2024-03-11T13:21:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/11\/cipro-aiuti-corridoio-marittimo-gaza-2\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T11:07:24","slug":"the-departure-of-the-first-aid-from-the-sea-corridor-to-gaza-is-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/11\/the-departure-of-the-first-aid-from-the-sea-corridor-to-gaza-is-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"The departure of the first aid from the sea corridor to Gaza is delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The 200 tons of food to be shipped as quickly as possible to Gaza, for now, is\u00a0 stuck at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus. The opening of the Cypriot sea corridor, announced<\/a> Friday, March 8 with the visit to the island of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, is jammed even before it becomes a reality. The ship of the Open Arms NGO remains docked “due to some technical considerations,”<\/strong> diplomatic sources specify. But the new departure would be “expected within a few hours.”<\/p>\n

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N\u00edkos Christodoul\u00eddis, Ursula Von der Leyen in\u00a0Larnaca, 11\/03\/24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the “next few hours” is\u00a0the formula used\u00a0yesterday by the Nicosia government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis to tell the national news agency (CNA) of an initial expansion of the planned timeline. He added that he would not make public the exact timing for security reasons. The Cypriot government spokesman also stated that “the ship was checked, as requested<\/strong>, by the authorities of the Republic of Cyprus following all the protocols stipulated in the planning,” in official coordination with Tel Aviv and\u00a0the presence of Israeli representatives.<\/p>\n

According to<\/a>\u00a0the CNA<\/em>,\u00a0 the slowdown was because “the platform in Gaza that will receive the humanitarian aid towed by the ship is not yet ready.” European Commission chief spokesman Eric Mamer said that “there are different ways in which a ship can be unloaded,” depending on “size, cargo, weather, and security conditions.” He confirmed that “there is a plan to unload aid” regardless of the U.S. initiative to build a temporary dock<\/strong>. The floating port “will help to unload heavier cargo once it is operational,” Mamer said. In Washington, they predict not before six weeks.<\/p>\n

Open Arms sources\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the Spanish Agency\u00a0EFE <\/em>that\u00a0a breakwater in the arrival area\u00a0was planned to<\/strong> unload the nearly 200 tons of flour, rice, and canned food directly onto Gaza’s beaches. At that point, distribution would pass through the hands of international partners on the ground: U.N. agencies such as UNRWA, the World Food Programme, WHO, and\u00a0the International Red Cross and Red Crescent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The boat of the Open Arms NGO, already loaded with 200 tons of food, is still stationed in the port of Larnaca in Cyprus. It was supposed to set sail by the weekend, but diplomatic sources say the delay is due to “some technical considerations,” and the new departure “is expected within a few hours.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":343834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[27194,27220,27212],"class_list":["post-343998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-cipro-en","tag-gaza-en-2","tag-open-arms-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343998"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344793,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343998\/revisions\/344793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}