Donor nations, aid agencies and charities pushed on with efforts yesterday to rush food to war-torn Gaza by land, air and sea after the EU top diplomat said starvation had become “a weapon of war”.
The Israel-Hamas conflict raging since October 7 has caused mass civilian deaths, reduced vast areas to a rubble-strewn wasteland and sparked warnings of looming famine in the Palestinian territory of 2.4 million people.
A Spanish charity vessel, the Open Arms, was on its way to Gaza from Cyprus, towing a barge with 200 tons of aid, in a first voyage meant to open a maritime corridor.
The flow of aid trucks from Egypt into Gaza has slowed recently, a trend variously blamed on Israel and its security checks of cargo, and on civil unrest in…
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