Charity hopes to send second food aid ship to Gaza in next few days
by Harriet Sherwood, Jason Burke in Jerusalem and Hel from World news | The Guardian on (#6KBP8)
Pallets with 50% more supplies than first boat, Open Arms, being loaded in Cyprus
The charity sending food aid to Gaza on a ship travelling across the Mediterranean from Cyprus is loading a second boat with supplies, which it hopes will set off in the coming days.
Pallets containing 300 tonnes of food aid - 50% more than the first shipment - are expected to be screened and loaded by the end of Thursday, but there is no indication yet when it will leave the port of Larnaca.
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