Satellite photos show pieces of floating pier alongside vessel, which is about 5 miles from project base
Strip is offshore from the territory and building out a floating platform for the operation, according to satellite photos analysed by the Associated Press.
The new port sits just south-west of Gaza City, north of a road bisecting Gaza that the Israeli military built during the current fighting against Hamas. The area was the territory’s most populous region before the Israeli ground offensive rolled through and pushed more than a million people south toward the city of Rafah on the Egyptian border.
“While we have no concrete assurances, we continue to seek answers and advocate for change with the goal of better protecting WCK and all NGO workers serving selflessly in the worst humanitarian conditions,” she said. “Our demand for an impartial and international investigation remains.” Organisers said the shipping registry of Guinea-Bissau, administered by an Athens-based corporation, G-B International, contacted them to demand further inspection of one of their ships, the Akdeniz, a large passenger ship moored in an Istanbul shipyard.
The organisers said G-B international demanded “a formal letter explicitly approving the transportation of humanitarian aid and a complete manifest of the cargo”.Eirini Sampani, a legal officer with G-B international, said signing up to its register entailed a commitment not to “engage on a unilateral basis in war zones against internationally followed practices and UN resolutions, such as the Gaza area”.
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