A spokesman for the European Commission, Balazs Ujvari, announced at midday on Friday 17 May that a new shipment of European Union humanitarian aid had left Cyprus for Gaza via the maritime corridor and was due to arrive in the afternoon. This is the first EU aid shipment to use the temporary American jetty moored on the coast of the Gaza Strip.
Thanks to the EU’s civil protection mechanism, Romania is sending more than 88,000 tins of food, with the European Commission covering the...