Four ships travelled from Larnaca over the weekend with almost 1000 tonnes of humanitarian aid for Gaza along the ‘Amalthea’ corridor, the director of the president’s press office Victoras Papadopoulos said on Tuesday.
Papadopoulos was speaking to state broadcaster CyBC in the morning about the corridor and how it is progressing.
“We have a continuous flow of ships. Four ships have been going and coming back,” he said about the corridor.
He added that the four ships are three American ones and one French ship.
According to Papadopoulos, large quantities of humanitarian material from the United States, Britain, the United Arab Emirates, Romania and other countries are concentrated in the port of Larnaca.
He also said that in the next 24 hours solely Cypriot aid would be sent to Gaza.
Papadopoulos noted that the whole operation is very well set up and is working according to plan.
Meanwhile, the US armed forces joint command in charge of the Middle East (Centcom) announced on Monday evening that more than 569 metric tonnes of humanitarian aid have been delivered through the artificial pier set up off Gaza.
However, in a post on the platform X, the United Nations said that not all the aid had reached the warehouses where it was intended to go yet.
Aid shipments began arriving at the pier on Friday, as international pressure intensified on Israel to allow more to be distributed to the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The UN announced that 10 shipments of food from the pier arrived at the World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in Deir al-Bala on Friday, clarifying that they were transported by the agencys contractors.
But on Saturday, only five trucks arrived at the depot while 11 others were emptied by Palestinians during their journey from areas where a UN official, speaking on condition of anonymity, noted that access to aid has been almost non-existent so far.
The UN did not receive any aid through the jetty either the Sunday before last or yesterday, Monday, the official added.
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