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Spokeswoman Laura Lanuza said: "Israeli authorities, which have welcomed the Cypriot sea corridor initiative, were inspecting the cargo of '200 tonnes of basic foodstuffs, rice and flour, cans of tuna'."
The United Nations World Food Programme has warned that the volume of aid that can be delivered by sea will do little if anything to stave off famine in Gaza.
Humanitarian workers and UN officials say that easing the entry of trucks to Gaza would be more effective than aid airdrops or sea shipments.
With ground access limited, countries have also turned to airdropping aid, although a parachute malfunction turned one delivery on Friday deadly.
Another 82 people were killed in strikes over the previous day, the ministry said, bringing the number of fatalities in Israel's bombardment and ground offensive of Gaza to 30,960, mostly women and children.
Canada has since become the latest country to say it would join aerial aid delivery missions.
"The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet, settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian State."
Comment: While the controversy around Boeing's lax production standards is being spun as a diversity issue, it seems there's little in Barnett's complaints about diversity-hires being the root of the problem. It more appears that the age-old issue of penny-pinching and corner-cutting.
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