The food truck from is now heading towards Kerem Shalom near the Kerem-Shalom checkpoint at the south of the Gaza Strip.
The writing on the truck says "life camp" and "you will not starve" in Hebrew and Arabic.
It seems they've just passed Ashkelon, 13 km north of the Gaza strip.
Meanwhile, a food truck is on its way to Gaza, organised by the Israel grassroots organisation "Standing Together" ( , , ).
You can follow the truck's updates on their whatsapp group, they've shared an invite:
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First ship sets sail for >>>
No time to wait ... Aid organizations are already sending the first urgently needed supplies from to the Strip.
Thank you Open Arms, Chef Andres & WCK
Japan pledged to promote "offer-based" development assistance instead of waiting for developing countries to request such funding in its annual economic aid policy document.
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Does anyone knows any decent international organization that can provide medical assistance for person with ASD and ARFID, granted that there's most likely a lot of stuff outside of ASD and ARFID issues Or even charity international organizations that can help in situation with health issues and whatnot. Thank you.
' live: ship loaded with 200 tonnes of sets sail from to '
'Charity ship sails from Larnaca port towing barge with flour, rice and protein'
An entire population of depends on humanitarian assistance for survival. Very little comes in & restrictions increase.
A truck loaded with aid has just been turned back because it had scissors used in childrens medical kits.
But faces a much grimmer future should that not arrive, & would probably lose significant ground to , Burns said.That would be a massive & historic mistake for the , he said. Whats more, failure to help defend Ukraine would stoke the ambitions of the to make aggressive moves on .The Ukrainians are not running out of courage & tenacity. Theyre running out of ammunition. And were running out of time to help them, Burns said.
Is starving children in Palestine, or asked apparently referring to reports by the & orgs, as well as some Dems that Israels refusal to allow the necessary volume of food is causing a preventable .The reality is that there are children who are . Theyre , as a result of the fact that humanitarian assistance cant get to them. Its very difficult to distributeeffectively, unless you have a Burns said.
"America has no plan for distributing the aid once it arrives, and there is no Palestinian actor able to take on the responsibility. The result may well be that Israeli soldiers will have to secure and distribute the aid, a dangerous first step towards the IDF's reoccupation and control of Gazan life"
A good analysis of the proposed US port in Gaza from Zvi Bar'el in Haaretz.
If you want to know just how bad US readiness is, check out the latest episode of What's Going On With Shipping.
We don't have the ships or the equipment we used to have, and what we do have is far away and not even close to being enough.
Focus on the pier thing he's talking about. Ignore his comments at the end blaming Hamas it's entirely Israel's fault for blocking aid that led to this.
We couldn't put enough supplies ashore if we wanted to.
Am fine being proven wrong if it comes to good in the end. Actually hope he's right, and not just blowing smoke.
"Gallant says sea corridor plan for Gaza aid will help bring Hamas down"
"Gallant said aid deliveries by sea would help 'ensure that supplies reach here for those who need them and not for those who dont.'
He doesn't give reasons on how that does that, so have to trust he knows regional dynamics in ways that will support his claims.
and american
"The Pentagon has said it could take up to 60 days to build the pier with the help of 1,000 troops - none of whom would go ashore."
"Meanwhile, an aid ship laden with some 200 tonnes of food was still waiting for clearance to set sail from a port in Cyprus on Sunday morning."
"However Oscar Camps, the founder of Open Arms, told the Associated Press that at the destination point - which remains a secret - a team from the World Central Kitchen has been building a pier to receive the aid."
Air drops
13th Relief Plane Arrives in to Deliver to People
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'I couldn't just sit at home': The Arab-Jewish Gaza aid convoy carrying food, and hope
Canada will restore funding to UNRWA, the embattled UN agency in Gaza
Canada will restore funding to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians, weeks after the agency lost hundreds of millions of dollars in support following Israeli allegations against some of its staffers in Gaza
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- to open this weekend, with and support
From B.M.: "Posted the full piece on YouTube. Sort of a "day in the life of" segment with organizer of "protests" at Kerem Shalom Crossing, where they block aid to Gaza.
Disgusting piece, on public broadcast, romanticizing pro-starvation, government-backed, protests."
The full segment from a Channel 11 program:
Is European Union waking up
will open sea corridor to send from to amid fears
Commission president says pilot delivery is expected to set sail on Saturday but did not say where shipments would land or unload
Supplies to avert famine and disease are an issue the U.S. must demand of Israel, not request.
There will be a humanitarian corridor from to . This should enable the supply of aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
A test will first be carried out on Friday. The corridor should come into full operation on Saturday or Sunday.
The United States is planning to set up a temporary port on the coast of the Gaza Strip to ramp up the delivery of aid and ease the humanitarian crisis in the territory sparked by the Israel-Hamas war.
- US to set up temporary port on coast for delivery
People are feeding this movement, unwittingly or not.
"Hamas's Haniyeh: Donations to Palestinians, Gaza are 'financial jihad'"
Haniyeh: "We should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it."
Their "victory" was torture, rape and murder of people from all walks of life, many from other nations, in their homes and villages, or at an evening music festival.
Release the hostages!
The new facility, if opened as scheduled, could provide another way to get truckloads of into the region. But it would not solve the central problem that the trucks have been unable to deliver their goods while remains fierce in the South. Nor would it address the that accompanied the deliveries.
The project will take several wks, involving hundreds or thousands of on ships just off shore, in keeping w/ s mandate that no soldiers be on the ground inside as the conflict rages. Briefing reporters,admin ofcls said that the port would be constructed in cooperation w/other countries in the region, but it was unclear whether would be joining the effort.
will announce in his on Thurs that he is ordering the to build a floating off , in what the WH called an emergency mission that would allow hundreds of truckloads of additional to be delivered by sea to who are on the brink of .
Norway will allocate $153 million for a Czech initiative to purchase ammunition for Ukraine. Norway is also joining the coalition to support Ukraine's air defense.
opposing to have directly hampered the for . Not only, they aid , but they hurt .
The opposition activists of are currently held outside the border, where the is preventing them from bringing in and food. If you've seen my earlier posts, 's army allowed plenty of fanatic Israeli to enter Gaza and seize/destroy aid that was there. But of course are just a few bad apples rather than systemic, right
on whether to sign .
warns could lose billions in .