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we start with efforts to get desperately needed aid into gaza, let s ta ke let s take you to live pictures in larnaca with a spanish charity ship is leaving the port carrying some 200 tonnes of food to gaza along what is going to become a new maritime aid corridor that was announced by the eu. this vessel is being operated by world central kitchen, and it has been in larnaca for the last three weeks. it is towing a barge loaded with items which have been provided by world central kitchen. it is being organised by open arms, you can see the vessel has 0pen organised by open arms, you can see the vessel has open arms written on it. the open arms people say that on that barge being told our 200 tonnes of basic foodstuffs, including things like rice and flour and cans of tuna. the ship will take around two or three days to reach as i but we do not know where it will dock in gaza because there are no ports, so anything which has been set up will have to be temporary. it is an unde
the vessel, operated by the open arms charity, has been repositioning itself in the harbour in larnaca while another smaller boat towed a barge carrying aid supplies out onto the waters. believe we are showing you the live pictures right now of that ship. we are going to keep it up throughout the programme as we discussed gaza as it prepares to set sail. over the last two days, it s been loaded with around 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies. the aid will be overseen by the world central kitchen organisation. but without a working port, it s not clear yet where the ship will actually dock or how its cargo will be distributed inside gaza. world central kitchen is founded by the celebrity american chefjose andress. the us military has confirmed that one of its ships is currently sailing to the middle east, carrying equipment to build a temporary pier off the coast of gaza. the support vessel, the general frank s bessonjunior, left virginia on saturday. meanwhile, talks invo
more food into the besieged enclave. a us military ship is also sailing towards the middle east, carrying equipment to build a temporary pier off the coast of gaza which has no functioning port to get aid there by sea. israel has been accused of preventing aid getting into gaza, and us presidentjoe biden says benjamin netanyahu s conduct in the war is doing israel more harm than good. my colleague anna foster is in jerusalem and gave us this update. first of all, to the skies above gaza and these pictures that show the latest drop of aid that has been carried out by us central command and also by thejordanian air force as well. this is the latest air drop into gaza, which provided, they said, meals more than 11,500 meal equivalents. things like food, including rice, flour, pasta and canned food. we ve seen these air drops really starting to increase over gaza in the last two weeks or so, since the us air force also got involved. but of course it is still nowhere near to m