The US today completed a floating platform off the coast of the Gaza Strip to ferry more aid to the enclave, which has been devastated by seven months of war and whose main entry points have been blocked for more than a week.
This morning, US troops “supporting the humanitarian mission of delivering additional humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in need secured the floating platform on the beach of Gaza“, the US Central Command or CENTCOM announced through Platform X.
“Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are expected to begin arriving ashore in the coming days,” CENTCOM continued, clarifying that the aid would go to UN who “will coordinate its distribution in Gaza”.
That pier, the cost of which was announced at $320 million, according to the Pentagon, had an initial completion date of May 7.
A ship sailed from the port of Larnaca
The British Foreign Office announced yesterday that a ship loaded with aid had sailed from the port of Larnaca, Cyprus, bound for this floating jetty.
About 100 tonnes of temporary accommodation is expected to be unloaded for Gazans, 2.4 million people, some 70% of whom have been displaced by the war, in an already crowded enclave that has been under siege for seven months.
The Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip in response to the bloody raid on its territory by its gunmen Hamas on October 7.
The two main passages were blocked
International aid, tightly controlled by the Israeli authorities, was already arriving but its entry into the Gaza Strip is now blocked at the two main crossings – Kerem Shalom from Israel and Rafah from Egypt.
According to the protothema, the Israeli army captured on May 7 the Rafah crossing from the Palestinian side, through which all the fuel needed to operate the infrastructure of the Gaza Strip – where there has been no electricity since the beginning of the Israeli attack – and for the transfer of humanitarian aid.
Egypt has since refused to coordinate the delivery of aid with Israel from Rafah, with the two countries blaming each other for the blockade.
Kerem Shalom, which was closed for several days in early May following being hit by rockets from Hamas, is officially open, but aid agencies say they cannot receive aid sent there because of fuel shortages and fighting in the area. .
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