Cyprus / Second shipment with 400 tons of food aid left for Gaza

At least 32,705 Palestinians have been killed and 75,190 wounded in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since October 7.

Today, a second mission with humanitarian aid for Gaza departed from the port of Larnaca in Cyprus. The cargo ship, which is carrying nearly 400 tons of food, was joined by a rescue ship and a floating dock that are also carrying aid and were already docked. The rescue ship will tow the help.

This will be the second humanitarian aid mission through Cyprus, where the Cypriot authorities have opened, in cooperation with Israel, a humanitarian sea corridor to facilitate shipments arriving directly to the besieged Palestinian enclave.

BREAKING: An Israeli strike has hit a car carrying UN observers in southern Lebanon, wounding several observers, two security sources have told Reuters.

Israeli military says it did not strike a UNIFIL vehicle in south lebanon

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About 9,000 patients urgently need to be transported for treatment outside the Gaza Strip

Some 9,000 patients from the Gaza Strip must be evacuated urgently for treatment as there are only 10 hospitals left in the Palestinian territory which are barely functioning, the head of the WHO warned today.

“With only 10 hospitals operating as a minimum across #Gaza, thousands of patients continue to lack healthcare,” warned World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Before the war, Gaza had 36 hospitals, according to WHO figures.

“Approximately 9,000 patients need to be urgently transported abroad for vital health services, including treatment for cancer, shelling injuries, dialysis and other chronic diseases,” he said.

This number is 1,000 more than the latest WHO census in early March.

Tedros said that so far “more than 3,400 patients have been referred abroad through Rafa, including 2,198 injured and 1,215 chronically ill.” “But many more must be removed. We urge Israel to speed up approvals for removals so that critically ill patients can be treated. Every moment counts,” he said.

Before the war began on October 7, 50 to 100 patients a day were being referred from Gaza to East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Half of them were being treated for cancer.

Israel struck a vehicle carrying United Nations observers outside the Lebanese border town of Rmeis on Sunday, injuring observers, two sources in the Lebanese security forces told Reuters.

Israeli military spokesman Avichai Andrai denied that Israeli forces hit the vehicle of UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon. The Israeli armed forces also issued a statement saying that, “contrary to reports, the Israel Defense Forces did not hit a UNIFIL vehicle this morning in the Rmeis area.”

So far there is no comment from UNIFIL or the UN observer mission UNTSO.

One of the security forces sources said three UN technical observers and a Lebanese interpreter were in the car. That source, as well as a second source in the security forces, said the Israeli strike injured the occupants of the vehicle.

Israel has been exchanging fire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon for nearly six months, alongside the war in Gaza.

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