#humanitarian aid

Cyprus has sent €92,000 to Unicef and the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (Unocha) as humanitarian aid to the people affected by the earthquake in Vanuatu, in December 2024. ...

Cyprus on Monday shipped 1,200 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Gaza, including food and clothing. A total of 1,191 pallets were shipped from Limassol port, which will head to Gaza via Ashdod ...

Israel killed 13 Palestinians in two airstrikes in Gaza on Thursday that Gaza medics and Hamas said were part of a force protecting humanitarian aid trucks. Israel’s military said they ...

Flights carrying the first shipment of medicines and consumables from Cyprus to Lebanon left on Friday morning. A second shipment is expected to depart on Saturday, according to the Cyprus ...

Lebanon on Monday received emergency medical supplies to equip its hospitals for possible war injuries and Beirut airport was teeming with people trying to leave the country amid fears a ...

Hundreds of trucks loaded with food and water have been stranded on a scorching Egyptian road, some for nearly two months, awaiting permission to deliver the much needed humanitarian supplies ...

Cyprus is a centre for humanitarian operations in the region and this is proven every day, President Nikos Christodoulides stressed on Wednesday. Invited by reporters to comment on Turkish media ...

The situation in Gaza “can only get worse”, United Nations senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza Sigrid Kaag told Cypriot Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Friday. Kaag met with ...

A U.S. military-built pier off Gaza’s coast is being temporarily removed after a part of the structure broke off, the Pentagon said, in the latest blow to efforts ...

The government “would not take a negative stance” if the north wished to send humanitarian aid to Gaza through the Amalthea plan, the Cyprus Mail learned on Monday.  Diplomatic sources ...

The north wishes it could send humanitarian aid to Gaza, ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu Tore said on Friday. Deputising for Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar at a ceremony for members of ...

Aid from the UK reached Gaza through the Cyprus maritime corridor, British Foreign Secretary said in on post on X on Friday. “This is a major step forward,” Cameron said. “...

Aid sent from Cyprus to Gaza by the United States is to begin arriving ashore “in the coming days”, US Agency for International Development (USAid) spokeswoman Sonali Korde said on ...

The almost 200 tonnes of humanitarian aid transported from Cyprus to Gaza on the ship the Open Arms have been successfully unloaded in Gaza, the Cypriot government said on Saturday. Speaking ...

Israel will try to “flood” the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid from a variety of entry points, the main military spokesman said on Wednesday as international pressure mounted to address ...

The first shipment of humanitarian aid from Cyprus and the UK containing almost 90 tonnes of assistance has arrived to Egypt’s Port Said and is being transported to the Rafah ...

Immediately after the Hamas attack on October 7, Limassol port became a haven for fleeing Israelis, welcoming the first passengers arriving from Haifa on October 12. And Cyprus was not left unscathed ...

Israel is prepared to let ships deliver aid to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip “immediately” as part of a proposed sea corridor from Cyprus, the Israeli foreign minister said on Sunday, ...

Security and logistical issues appeared to be at the forefront of ongoing delays in delivering the humanitarian aid from Cyprus to Gaza, it emerged on Thursday, as the government continued ...

The UK has 82 tonnes of humanitarian supplies in Cyprus “ready to go”, along with five tonnes of medical equipment, Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Andrew ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will take part on Thursday in an atypical international humanitarian conference in Paris on means of providing aid to civilians in Gaza. He is expected to present ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday spoke with King Abdallah II of Jordan over the developments in the Middle East, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said, and later with US top diplomat ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spoke at length with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and details are being hammered out so that Cyprus can be ready “when the time comes” to ...

The Citizen’s Commissioner Panayiotis Senontas has thanked the Cyprus Red Cross for its contribution to two major humanitarian aid missions in Ukraine. Speaking on Monday at the Red Cross ...