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A ship belonging to the Open Arms aid group approaches the shores of Gaza towing a barge with 200 tons of humanitarian aid on Friday, March 15, 2024. The ship set sail Tuesday from Cyprus to inaugurate a sea route to get desperately needed aid into the war-wracked enclave, which is suffering a humanitarian crisis five months into the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The first ship to use a new sea route approaches Gaza with 200 tons of aid

By Wafaa Shurafa - Associated Press

The ship belonging to the Open Arms aid group with aid on a platform ferry some 200 tonnes of rice and flour directly to Gaza, exists the port from southern city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. An aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food set sail Tuesday from Cyprus to Gaza, the international charity behind the effort said. The shipment is a test for the opening of a sea corridor to supply aid to the territory, where starvation is spreading five months into the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Aid ship sets sail to Gaza where hundreds of thousands face starvation 5 months into war

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

A migrant stands on the deck of the Open Arms Spanish humanitarian boat near the coast of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Gentico)

Migrants jump off rescue boat to try to reach Italian island

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Migrants are evacuated by Italian Coast guards from the Open Arms Spanish humanitarian boat off the coast of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. A Spanish aid boat with 147 rescued migrants aboard is anchored off a southern Italian island as Italy's ministers spar over their fate. (AP Photo/Francisco Gentico)

Aid group: Italy must let all migrants off rescue ship

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press