The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced, on Tuesday 12 March, the de facto opening of the humanitarian maritime corridor between Cyprus and the Gaza Strip. That very morning, the ship belonging to the Spanish NGO Open Arms had left the Cypriot port of Larnaca with some 200 tonnes of water and food to be distributed to the Gaza population by the NGO World Central Kitchen.
“This maritime corridor is the result of unprecedented international cooperation,...