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U.S. officials said aid deliveries from the Gaza pier could start “within days,” but it was unclear if there was a firm deal with the U.N. for its distribution.

Last week, while the pier was still operational, Pentagon spokesman Major General Patrick Ryder said that it had enabled 569 metric tons of humanitarian assistance to get to the beaches of Gaza.

(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) The US military has started moving a pier towards the Gaza coast, a US official said on Wednesday, one of the last steps before the launch of a maritime ...

(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) JERUSALEM (AP) — The first aid ship bound for an American-built floating pier to be installed in Gaza departed early Thursday. But it’s unclear when the corridor ...

Humanitarian workers have started moving tons of aid that piled up at a U.S.-built pier off the Gaza coast to warehouses in the besieged Palestinian territory, the United Nations said Saturday ...

I couldn’t help but think of it when a storm recently buffeted and disabled the pier that the United States was building on the coast of the Gaza Strip. Within weeks of that setback, the ...

The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the US military has started the construction of a maritime pier aimed at facilitating the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. The completion of the jetty ...

(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) The US military has started moving a pier towards the Gaza coast, a US official said on Wednesday, one of the last steps before the launch of a maritime ...