Aid delivered to Gaza via maritime corridor being returned to Cyprus after deadly Israeli airstrike

In the aftermath of the shocking news of the aid workers’ deaths, much of the humanitarian consignment that had reached Gaza via the maritime corridor from Cyprus is now being returned to the island, we have learned.

“At least two-thirds of the assistance is on its way back,” Cyprus’s foreign minister spokesperson, Theodoros Gotsis, told the Guardian.

“Around 332 tonnes of aid left Cyprus on Saturday. Around 100 tonnes, about a third, were unloaded and delivered but after these tragic events the other two-thirds are being brought back.”

The aid, which had included basic non-perishable food supplies such as flour and pasta, had reached the besieged coastal strip on a flotilla of ships that had departed the Cypriot port of Larnaca two days earlier.

Of the four vessels that had plied the route, two were carrying vital food provisions and two equipment and personnel. The humanitarian assistance had been loaded on a transport ship, the Jennifer, and a barge towed by the Spanish-flagged Open Arms.

By the time Monday’s airstrike occurred, in which seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen died, only supplies from the barge had been offloaded at a makeshift jetty off the Gaza coast.

Gotsis said with the charity putting its humanitarian relief operation on pause, the cargo would probably remain in Cyprus until the completion of investigations into the tragedy. “Obviously we will have to wait now until the whole process of inquiry is carried out,” he said. “We have to wait and see if WCK resumes operations.”

The International organisation is now the only charity involved in overseeing the distribution of aid from the Mediterranean island.

With famine reportedly spreading at an alarming pace among Gaza’s 2.3 million strong Palestinian populace, the news of much-needed food being sent back from the territory has only exacerbated the unfolding tragedy in the enclave

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Breaking | According to an Israeli media report, citing sources in the Israeli occupation forces, attributes the Israeli precision attack on a humanitarian aid convoy to "a lack of discipline" and dismisses any coordination issues.

• Quds News Network

“Lack of discipline”

Reuters reporting the U.K. has summoned the Zionist entity’s ambassador in relation to the killing of their aid worker

Satellite images show the distance between each bombed WCK vehicle and how the Israeli occupation army took their time to eliminate the entire crew with precision and premeditation.

The second car was bombed after it rescued the survivors of the first, while the third was bombed after it rescued the survivors from the second vehicle.

These b******s are invoking things like 'unintentional' and 'lack of discipline' right after triple tapping aid workers the f***...

basically they saying

I know it's just the UN...but sheesh has she always spoken about israel like this?

Should have been a coalition invasion way before 10/7 to dismantle the zionist entity but the fact that it's not even a pariah state at this point.....

Can't get his expression out of my head

Must be the first good thing these dogs have done in 6 months

I wanna say this might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. But it’s clear Yahoo is gonna do whatever he wants.

It’s absurd and the US has lost the last bit of morality and ideals it prides itself in. It was already a tarnished image and false, but the tiny shred of credibility it had is now gone.

“US has lost the last bit of morality and ideals it prides itself in.”

My bad for not being radical enough in my expression.

A lot of black folks still pride themselves enough in it to enlist and fight for their country. No confusion there. You ain’t gotta approve of everything to have a part of it you believed in.

Also based on the current state the US is in, there is no such thing as “collective black confusion”considering what we are seeing in division.

That’s an outdated concept.

A lot of folks can't pay for their education that ideally leads them to a job that will protect them from being homeless unless they go into the military as well

Is the Al Shifa siege and massacre getting any major network coverage outside of Al Jazeera or is everything focused on the aid workers that were attacked?

Also does anyone have any write ups on the Al Shifa massacre that they would be able to link?

Also I'm late on this but

thegrayzone.com/2024/03/27/us-state-depts-chef-gaza-aid-rubble/amp

No articles out yet as this just happened minutes ago, but at a joint press conference with Qatar, the Spanish prime minister just announced that Spain will recognize Palestine as a legitimate state no later than 7/1/24