The U.S. is on track to start delivering critical humanitarian aid into Gaza through a maritime corridor by early May and more details of the plan have been worked out, officials said. A senior military official said in a press call that construction and assembly of the pier in the Mediterranean Sea began Thursday off
About 1,000 US troops will support the military construction efforts, but Joe Biden has ordered them not to set foot on the Gaza shoreUS troops have begun construction of a maritime pier off the coast of Gaza that aims to speed the flow of humanitarian aid into the territory, the Pentagon has said, but the complex plan to bring more desperately needed food to Palestinian civilians is still mired in fears over security and how the aid will be delivered.“I can confirm that US military vessels, to...
Northern Gaza In Grip Of Full-Blown Famine, UN Food Agency Chief Says Starting early last month the director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Samantha Power informed US lawmakers in Congress for the first time that the population in parts of northern Gaza have begun facing famine. This testimony served to hasten international efforts to more efficiently get aid into the Strip, such as the Pentagon's Gaza pier project, though it didn't put a halt of the Western...
Global Empowerment Mission (GEM), a leading humanitarian organization, established a successful pathway for delivering humanitarian aid to northern Gaza by bringing multiple trucks to Jabalia on Monday. To complete the operation, the GEM members left their warehouse in Khan Yunis to navigate through the complex terrain and bring the aid to its destination. The aid delivered to the Northern GazaThe team used strategic transportation tactics and provided civilians with ready-to-eat...
Global Empowerment Mission (GEM), a leading humanitarian organization, established a successful pathway for delivering humanitarian aid to northern Gaza by bringing multiple trucks to Jabalia on Monday. To complete the operation, the GEM members left their warehouse in Khan Yunis to navigate through the complex terrain and bring the aid to its destination. The aid delivered to the Northern GazaThe team used strategic transportation tactics and provided civilians with ready-to-eat...
More than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafah
Dozens of people demonstrated Thursday night outside Israel’s military headquarters in Tel Aviv, demanding a deal to release the hostages.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shared in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that 15 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip on Sunday. The trucks were allowed in through the Kerem Shalo
Risk-filled mission to escort aid from US-built floating pier into combat zone under consideration in defence ministryBritain’s defence ministry is considering sending troops into Gaza to escort trucks of aid being driven off a giant floating pier built by the US military, a UK defence source has said.The pier is due to be completed next month in the eastern Mediterranean, and then it will be pushed towards the Gaza shore. But the US president, Joe Biden, has pledged that American forces...
Britain is already providing logistical support for construction of a pier to ship in supplies
The U.S. military had to pause its project of building a pier off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian due to bad weather, the Pentagon said Friday. U.S. Central Command officials “temporarily paused offshore assembly of the floating pier” off the coast of Gaza after high winds and sea swells caused unsafe conditions for
The relief is desperately needed, with the U.N. saying people in Gaza are on the brink of famine. But there are still widespread security concerns. And some aid groups say that with so much more needed, the focus should instead be on pushing Israel to ease obstacles to the delivery of aid on land routes.