Today, Thursday, the European Parliament approved a resolution strongly condemning Israel’s obstruction of humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a devastating war for more than six months.

The European Parliament condemned Israel's attack on relief convoys and called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.

In a related context, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that there is a need for at least 500 trucks or their equivalent of aid to enter Gaza daily.

Von der Leyen hinted, in a post on the “X” platform, that the initiative to send humanitarian aid from Cyprus to Gaza “is not an alternative to humanitarian access via land routes.”

She stressed the need for “the sea corridor to transport humanitarian aid to Gaza to be part of a continuing effort to increase the flow of aid to Gaza through all routes, including expanded land routes.”

In his State of the Union address on March 8, US President Joe Biden announced that he had instructed the army to establish a temporary port near the coast of Gaza, indicating that more humanitarian aid would enter Gaza by sea through the port.

On the same day, the President of Greek Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, announced, during a joint press conference with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the approaching opening of a sea corridor to transport humanitarian aid to Gaza.

On Wednesday, the US Army announced that a number of its ships were heading to Gaza to establish a “temporary” port that would allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Strip, which is besieged by Israel.

As a result of the war and Israeli restrictions, the residents of Gaza, especially the Gaza and northern governorates, are on the verge of famine, in light of a severe scarcity of food, water, medicine and fuel supplies, with the displacement of about two million Palestinians from the Strip, which has been besieged by Israel for 17 years.