Free Gaza Group spokesman Caoimhe Butterly says their 20-metre yacht Dignity will leave Larnaca port around 5 pm (10 pm Singapore time) on Monday with 3.5 tons of donated supplies.
She says the yacht will carry 16 passengers, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney, Cypriot lawmaker and doctor Eleni Theocharous and activists from Britain, Australia, Ireland and Tunisia.
Ms Butterly says the urgent need to deliver aid requested by Gaza authorities 'outweighs the risks' of entering a war zone.
Free Gaza has successfully made five deliveries of aid by boat from Larnaca to Gaza over the past four months. -- AP