The ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms and World Central Kitchen (WCK) reached the coasts of the besieged Gaza Strip this Friday and has already has unloaded nearly 200 tons of food and waterwhich will be distributed in the north of the Palestinian enclave.

“The cargo was transported in 12 trucks from the WCK organization, which They will distribute it to the north of the Gaza Strip“, the Israeli Army detailed on Friday in a statement, in which it reported that “the ships and goods were subjected to an exhaustive security inspection.”

This delivery is the first by sea in five months of war and seeks to alleviate hunger in Gaza, given the limited aid that Israel still allows to arrive by land. “Today World Central Kitchen aims to reach 37 million meals in Gaza,” its founder, the US-based Spanish chef José Andrés, published this afternoon on the social network X.

After completing the disembarkation, the non-governmental organization Open Arms highlighted this Saturday that, with the arrival in the last hours of some two hundred tons of food in the Gaza Strip, A maritime humanitarian corridor has been opened after twenty years of naval blockade to that area.

“The road to get here has not been easy, but what seemed impossible a few days ago is now a reality“says Open Arms, who thanks chef José Andrés for trusting the organization to transport the food with one of his boats as well as his own team, who has shown, he assures, that “with perseverance, creativity, effort and courage: There is no obstacle “that I cannot overcome when lives are at stake.”