US to remove Gaza aid pier due to weather and may not put it back, officials say

The pier built by the US military to bring aid to Gaza is being removed to protect it from potentially damaging weather, and the US is considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out to the population again, Reuters has cited several US officials as saying.

Source: Al Jazeera

UPDATE

US temporary aid pier ‘just a distraction’

Mansour Shouman says that even after the $230m US temporary aid pier was working, there were only about 29 trucks allowed into the Israeli military-controlled zone, so much of the aid is still on the beach.

“100 percent of the focus should have been on the land borders opening,” he told Al Jazeera, adding that the pier and efforts to airdrop aid were “just a distraction”.

“We need real change, we need an immediate ceasefire, we need permanent opening of the different land borders to the aid, and we need security for the people of Gaza as soon as possible.”

Source: Al Jazeera

UPDATE

Mansour Shouman says that even after the $230m US temporary aid pier was working, there were only about 29 trucks allowed into the Israeli military-controlled zone, so much of the aid is still on the beach.