WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday
The "floating pier" built by the U.S. Navy off the coast of Gaza was completed on Thursday, and connected to the shore by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops.
NICOSIA, May 8 (Reuters) – Aid for Gaza was being loaded onto a ship in Cyprus on Wednesday in what was expected to be the first cargo to be delivered using a U.S. pier built to
A shipment of humanitarian aid has left a port in Cyprus and is on its way to the U.S-built pier in Gaza, the first delivery to the newly built ramp, Cyprus’ foreign minister said Thursday.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has completed construction of its Gaza aid pier, but weather conditions mean it is currently unsafe to move the two-part facility into place, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The pier -- which the U.S. military started building last month and which will cost at least $320 million -- is aimed at boosting deliveries of desperately needed humanitarian assistance to Gaza, which has been ravaged by seven months of Israeli operations against Hamas.
GAZA, May 17 (Reuters) – Aid deliveries began arriving at a U.S.-built pier off the Gaza Strip on Friday as Israel comes under growing global pressure to allow more supplies into the besieged coastal enclave,where
NICOSIA, May 9 (Reuters) – A vessel carrying aid to a pier built by the United States off Gaza set sail from Cyprus on Thursday, Cypriot officials said. The U.S. flagged Sagamore left the port of
Hundreds of tonnes of aid is in Cyprus, where it will be loaded on to ships for delivery to the pier.
The Israeli military released footage on Saturday 18 May claiming to show humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip through the US-built floating pier which came into operation this week. Videos show packages being moved onto trucks ahead of their delivery. The Israel Defense Forces and the White House said about 300 pallets of aid were taken into the enclave for distribution on Friday. The shipment is the first in an operation that American military officials anticipate could scale up to 150...
Israeli forces battled Hamas fighters in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Friday in some of the fiercest engagements since they returned to the area a week ago, while in the south militants attacked tanks massing around Rafah. Residents said Israeli armour had thrust as far as
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, saying Israeli tactics have meant “a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians” but failed to neutralize Hamas leaders and fighters and could drive a lasting insurgency.
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