UN plans new aid routes in Gaza after crowds halt deliveries from US-built pier
The United Nations is planning a new route for delivering aid from a US-built floating dock in the Gaza Strip after crowds blocked 11 trucks, halting deliveries for several days. The temporary jetty was erected last Thursday amid international pressure on Israel to increase supplies to the Gaza Strip. Operation Pier, announced by President Biden, […]
None of the 569 metric tons of aid delivered to US-built pier has reached Palestinians, some ‘intercepted’ by looters, Pentagon says
More than 569 tons of humanitarian aid has arrived in the Gaza Strip over a U.S.-built floating pier, but none of it has been delivered to Palestinian civilians, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. The structure was built by the US military to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn region and was completed last Thursday. However, […]
Pentagon admits the US-built pier to Gaza is failing to provide aid
Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder said Tuesday that the department estimates that none of the more than 500 tons of aid from the U.S.-built pier reached the people of Gaza. The U.S. pier was authorized by President Joe Biden’s administration to distribute more aid within the war zone, on top of the aid brought […]
Hamas Steals Aid and We Think We Negotiated to Get It All Back, ‘Very Serious’ Security Concerns About Pier
On Thursday’s “PBS News Hour,” outgoing UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said there were “very serious” security concerns at aid piers in Gaza, and that Hamas was not providing assistance. They are stealing supplies, and when they steal, “we” said. We negotiated to get that aid back. And as […]
Gaza ‘Floating Pier’ Completed by U.S., Connected to Shore by Israel
A “floating pier” built by the US Navy off the coast of Gaza was completed on Thursday and connected to the coast by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) troops. During his State of the Union address in March, President Joe Biden announced a port project that would increase land access for humanitarian aid to Gaza. He […]
What to know about how much the aid from a US pier project will help Gaza
A U.S.-built jetty has been set up to transport humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip by sea, but whether this new route will work until supplies can reach starving Palestinians reliably remains to be seen. no one knows. The truck falling from the pier project on Thursday comes amid escalating fighting, Hamas’ threats to target […]
US military constructs hulking metal pier amid Biden’s $320 million gamble to get aid into Gaza
The US military has completed construction of a giant metal pier that will be pierced into the northern Gaza coast within days, officials announced. The completion of the giant temporary structure, about 1,500 feet long, or the length of five American football fields, marks the end of the Biden administration’s two-month commitment to open a […]
Biden’s Gaza Pier Constructed But There Is One Major Problem, Pentagon Says
The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that construction of an operational humanitarian pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip has been completed, The Times of Israel reported. But the Pentagon noted that bad weather made it difficult to relocate the facility, which would have cost at least $320 million. report. US completes construction of Gaza […]
Gaza pier construction nears completion: By the numbers
U.S. forces are close to completing construction of a temporary port in the Mediterranean Sea off Gaza’s coast, but the weather has proven to be a recent obstacle. They temporarily paused construction of the pier on Thursday due to forecasted high winds and high sea swells, according to U.S. Central Command. The military vessels involved […]
Stormy seas pause construction of Gaza pier, Pentagon says
The U.S. military had to suspend plans to build a pier off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian supplies due to bad weather, the Pentagon announced Friday. U.S. Central Command officials said in a statement that they were halting “offshore assembly of floating docks” off the coast of Gaza as strong winds and sea […]