Italian charity sends 15 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Gaza via Cyprus

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The aid, which was collected from donors by the charity Confederazione Nazionale delle Misericordie d'Italia, took off aboard a C-130J military aircraft from an airfield in the central city of Pisa.

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00:00An Italian charity has sent 15 tons of humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza. The aid, which

00:08was collected from donors by the charity Misery Cordi, took off aboard a military aircraft

00:13from an airfield in Pisa. It will be shipped via the Cyprus Maritime Corridor, an initiative

00:18of the Cypriot government in coordination with the United Nations and international

00:23partners such as the European Union.

00:25Israel has long been criticized of impeding the flow of aid into Gaza, something it's

00:30always denied. On Thursday, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

00:36accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war. But Kogad, the Israeli agency that

00:42tracks and records all aid transferred into Gaza, maintains aid is flowing into the Strip.

00:48According to data published on its website, more than 1.1 million tons of aid has passed

00:53into Gaza since the start of the war in October last year.

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