More humanitarian aid could reach the enclave’s north via the floating pier, including if a planned Israeli ground offensive disrupts deliveries in the south.
The US military has started building a large floating pier off Gaza's coast to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid, the defence department has said. Ships will deliver aid from Cyprus to the pier where it will be loaded onto trucks to transfer across Gaza.
The United States has begun construction at sea of the temporary pier intended to help deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, the Pentagon said on Thursday, with the ultimate goal of delivering up to 150 trucks of aid per day to the starving population there.
Israeli forces preparing for the U.S. military’s pier to be built off Gaza’s coast came under mortar fire this week, highlighting the threat posed to everyone involved in the plan to provide aid by sea.
Monitor, New York Magazine, and NBC News The US military began construction of a temporary pier off the Gaza coast that aims to facilitate the delivery of more humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave.
The U.S. military has begun constructing a pier off of Gaza’s coast that isn’t expected to be operational until early next month, though it will allow for a surge of humanitarian aid to flow into the strip once it’s ready.
A maritime corridor is expected to be opened by early May, officials said, as construction for a pier off Gaza begins. Construction began in the Mediterranean Sea Thursday off the coast of Gaza to assemble the pier.
U.S. ships have begun constructing the initial stages of the temporary floating pier off Gaza’s coast, and defense officials expect it will be ready to flow aid into the war-torn Palestinian enclave by early May.