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| Courtesy of vesselfinder.org |
Well, Open Arms, the Gaza bound humanitarian ship, finally left Larnaca this morning on its mission.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen noted that this is the first time a ship has been authorised to deliver aid to Gaza since 2005, but added that providing humanitarian aid was not enough and that a ceasefire was necessary. She discreetly refrained from referring to the Israeli attack on a Free Gaza flotilla ship in international waters in 2010 that killed nine civilians. And naturally no mention of EU arms sales to Israel.