WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave besieged over seven months of intense fighting in the Israel-Hamas war.
The final, overnight construction sets up a complicated delivery process more than two months after US President Joe Biden ordered it to help Palestinians facing starvation, as food and other supplies fail to make it in as Israel recently seized the key Rafah border crossing in its push on that southern city on the Egyptian border.
United States Army soldier tosses a line to the Army tug vessel USAV Fort Moultrie from the roll-on, roll-off distribution facility, or floating pier, off the Gaza Strip on May 1, 2024. US CENTRAL COMMAND HANDOUT PHOTO VIA AFPHeavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of Rafah has displaced some 600,000 people, a quarter of Gaza's population, United Nations officials say.
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