FILE PHOTO: U.S. Navy personnel construct a JLOTS, which stands for 'Joint Logistics Over-the Shore' temporary pier which will provide a ship-to-shore distribution system to help deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza, in an undated handout picture in the Mediterranean Sea. U.S.
Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip have rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time, as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hindered the delivery of food and other supplies.U.S.
Troops finished installing the floating pier on Thursday, and the U.S. military's Central Command said the first aid crossed into Gaza at 9 a.m. local time Friday. It said no American troops went ashore in the operation.A plan to deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid to Gaza by constructing a floating pier is underway.
"We desperately need fuel," UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said. "It doesn't matter how the aid comes, whether it's by sea or whether by land, without fuel, aid won't get to the people."Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said the issue of fuel deliveries comes up in all U.S. conversations with the Israelis. She also said the plan is to begin slowly with the sea route and ramp up the truck deliveries over time as they work the kinks out of the system.
Members of the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and the Israeli military put in place the Trident Pier, a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid, on the Gaza coast. That concern was highlighted last month when an Israeli strike killed seven relief workers from World Central Kitchen whose trip had been co-ordinated with Israeli officials. The group had also brought aid in by sea.
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