Cyprus suggests plan for ‘sea corridor’ of humanitarian aid to Gaza

Cyprus has suggested humanitarian aid could be shipped from Limassol to Gaza (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Cyprus is working out with partners in the European Union and the Middle East how to establish a sea corridor to deliver a stream of vital humanitarian aid to Gaza from the island’s main port of Limassol, authorities said Tuesday.

A senior government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to publicly discuss details of the proposal, said the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, “wasn’t opposed” to the idea pitched by President Nikos Christodoulides of Cyprus last week.