First shipment of aid to US-built floating pier in Gaza leaves Cyprus

A crane loads food aid for Gaza onto the container ship Sagamore docked at Larnaca port, Cyprus (Petros Karadjias/AP)

A shipment of humanitarian aid has left a port in Cyprus and is on its way to the US-built pier in Gaza, the first delivery to the newly built ramp, Cyprus’s foreign minister said on Thursday.

The US vessel, loaded with much-needed humanitarian assistance, departed from the Larnaca port with the aim of transferring as much aid to Gaza as possible through the maritime corridor, said foreign minister Constantinos Kombos.