Aid for Gaza still leaving Cyprus by sea while landing pier fixed, Cypriot official says

Humanitarian aid for Gaza is continuing to leave Cyprus by sea and will be held in floating storage off the coast of the enclave until a US-built military pier undergoes repairs, a Cypriot government official has said.

Malnutrition is widespread in Gaza after almost eight months of war and the UN said on Wednesday the amount of aid entering the enclave had fallen by two-thirds since Israel began military operations in the enclave's southern Rafah region this month.

The US military announced earlier in the week that a purpose-built jetty it anchored off Gaza's coast to receive aid by sea was being temporarily removed after part of the structure broke off, two weeks after it started operating.

Cyprus government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said the offloading of aid for the Palestinian enclave - devastated by Israel's air and ground war against its...