Israel Allows Aid to Gaza’s Shores

Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed

Israel is prepared to let ships deliver aid to the Gaza Strip “immediately” as part of a proposed sea corridor from Cyprus, the Israeli foreign minister has said.

Under the arrangement, cargo would undergo security inspection in the Cypriot port of Larnaca before being ferried to the Gaza coast, 230 miles away, rather than through neighbouring Egypt or Israel, Reuters reports.

If the plan goes ahead, it will mark the first easing of an Israeli naval blockade imposed on Gaza in 2007.

“It can start immediately,” Israel’s outgoing foreign minister, Eli Cohen said.