{"id":15591,"date":"2024-03-08T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T15:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15591"},"modified":"2024-03-08T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T15:33:29","slug":"maritime-corridor-to-gaza-from-cyprus-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/maritime-corridor-to-gaza-from-cyprus-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime Corridor to Gaza from Cyprus to Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she expected a maritime aid corridor to start operating between Cyprus and Gaza this weekend, taking desperately-needed aid to besieged Palestinians.<br \/>\nVon der Leyen said a pilot test run of food aid collected by a charity group and supported by the United Arab Emirates could be leaving Cyprus as early as Friday from the port of Larnaca in Cyprus.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are launching this Cyprus maritime corridor together, the European Union, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States,\u201d Von der Leyen said after a visit to facilities in Cyprus.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are now very close to opening this corridor, hopefully this Saturday-Sunday and I\u2019m very glad to see an initial pilot will be launched today,\u201d she said alongside Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides.<br \/>\nOne aid group, World Central Kitchen (WCK), is currently gathering food supplies in Larnaca for the people of Gaza, with support from the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she expected a maritime aid corridor to start operating between Cyprus and Gaza this weekend, taking desperately-needed aid to besieged Palestinians. Von der Leyen said a pilot test run of food aid collected by a charity group and supported by the United Arab &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15593,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions\/15593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}