The U.S. military has completed the construction of a hulking metal pier that is expected to be jabbed into a beach in northern Gaza in the coming days, officials said. Completing the massive makeshift structure — approximately 1,500-ft long or the length of five U.S. football fields — is the first step in the Biden administration's two-month-long, $320 million gamble to open a sea route to get humanitarian aid through the eastern Mediterranean and into Gaza, where Israel continues to wage war...
Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip have rolled across a newly built U.S. floating pier into the besieged enclave for the first time
The United States military has completed the construction of the Gaza aid pier. However, due to weather conditions, it is currently unsafe to relocate the two-part facility, Deputy Pentagon Press Secr
The United States Department of Defense has announced that the construction work on a floating pier for humanitarian aid to Gaza has been completed, but the date of its deployment to a usable location has not yet been determined. Voice of America reported on Tuesday, May 7th, citing the US Department of Defense, that the […]
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...
This live blog is now closed, you can read more of our Israel-Gaza war coverage hereIsrael on Friday attacked South Africa’s case against it in the international court of justice as an “obscene exploitation” of the genocide convention, claiming it aimed not to protect Palestinian civilians but to defend Hamas militants.Israel’s representatives told the court their country was fighting a war of self-defence it “did not want and did not start”. They said Israel had made “extraordinary” efforts to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday
United States National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby mentioned on Friday that there is a "small component of US military personnel on the pier" in Gaza.Spe
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.
Aid agencies poised to receive supplies and distribute to territory where people face imminent starvationThe US military has said the installation of a floating pier for the delivery of humanitarian aid off Gaza has been completed, with officials ready to begin ferrying supplies into the territory, where much of the population faces imminent starvation owing to the continuing Israel-Hamas war.Ordered two months ago by the president, Joe Biden, the US military transported the system overnight...
It marks the opening of a new route for humanitarian aid to reach the stricken Gaza Strip.
A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know if the new route will work until a steady stream of deliveries begins reaching starving Palestinians. The trucks that will roll off the pier project installed Thursday will face intensified fighting, Hamas threats to target any foreign forces and uncertainty about whether the Israeli military will ensure that aid convoys have access and safety from attack by Israeli forces. TEMPORARY FLOATING PIER FOR...