
A ship ferrying some 200 tonnes of food to Gaza left the Cypriot port of Larnaca early on Tuesday in a pilot project to open a new sea route to relieve a Palestinian population on the brink of famine.
The mission is being organised by the US-based charity World Central Kitchen (WCK), founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, and comes as the US military readies plans to build an emergency pier to get much more aid in and avert a bigger humanitarian disaster in Gaza.