EU Warns Disaster Close in Gaza as Aid Corridor Set to Open

  • Plan seeks to transport food, medical supplies from Cyprus
  • Israel, Hamas demands for cease-fire remain far apart

Displaced Palestinians at a makeshift camp by the beach in Rafah.

Photographer: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

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The European Union and partners including the US are set to launch a maritime aid corridor to Gaza as soon as this weekend — a means to get urgent aid to desperate civilians caught in the Israel-Hamas war.