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US-built floating pier for Gaza could start operating this week: Report

The Associated Press news agency is reporting that a floating pier built by the US military to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza could be operational in the coming days.

  • The US plan envisions aid ships travelling from Cyprus to a platform built off the coast of Gaza, where the cargo will be offloaded onto trucks.
  • Smaller US Army vehicles will then transport the aid trucks to a pier built onshore. From there, third-party contractors will drive the trucks onto the beach and hand over the aid to humanitarian agencies.

The construction of the offshore floating platform was completed earlier this month.

  • Sabrina Singh, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, said the pier and causeway – which have been assembled at the Israeli port of Ashdod – are “just waiting to be affixed to the coastline of Gaza”.

An anonymous US official told AP that the US army expects to finish anchoring the causeway onto the beach in Gaza by Wednesday or Thursday.

Source: Al Jazeera