PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — Humanitarian aid began trickling back into the devastated Gaza Strip on Saturday via a rebuilt, temporary pier, US forces said.
The pier, built by the US military to boost the delivery of direly needed relief supplies, was only briefly operational before it suffered storm damage at the end of May. After repairs, the pipeline was reestablished on Friday. Crews delivered about 492 tonnes of 'much needed humanitarian assistance' via the pier on Saturday morning, the US Central Command wrote in a social media post.
There are now 116 hostages remaining in Gaza, including 41 the army says are dead.Footage posted on social media showed beachgoers erupting into cheers in Tel Aviv when a lifeguard announced the news.'We have had these hostages in our thoughts for every day for the better part of a year now -- to have even a few of them rescued against all odds, it means the world,' 42-year-old Israeli Uriya Bekenstein told AFP.
Deliveries To Gaza Resume Through Rebuilt Pier
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