A top European Union official is in Cyprus to inspect preparations to send desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, just hours after US President Joe Biden announced that the US military will set up a temporary port off Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to support deliveries.
Efforts to set up a sea route for aid deliveries come amid mounting alarm over the spread of hunger among Gaza’s 2.3 million people, as the war between Israel and Hamas, sparked by the terror group’s October 7 massacres, continues into its sixth month.
Hunger is most acute in northern Gaza, which has been isolated for months and suffered long cutoffs of food supply deliveries.
Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Union’s powerful executive arm, arrived in Cyprus late last night to inspect facilities at the port of Larnaca, where aid ships are expected to depart for Gaza.
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