The shipment by the World Central Kitchen charity is a test for the opening of a sea corridor to supply aid to the territory, where starvation is spreading five months into the Israel-Hamas war.
Footage posted by the charity showed the Open Arms being towed out of the port of Larnaca.
The US has separately announced plans to construct a sea bridge near Gaza in order to deliver aid, but it will likely be several weeks before it is operational.
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