North ‘wishes’ it could send humanitarian aid to Gaza

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 the north’s civil defence, he touched on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and said “if only we could send food and medicinal aid to the people there.”

Tore’s words come on the same day as it emerged that the United Nations has resumed the transfer of humanitarian aid arriving by sea in Gaza under the Amalthea plan...