The Pentagon’s plan for aid delivery via a U.S.-built floating pier has also faced obstacles, as humanitarian groups warn of growing hunger in the Gaza Strip.
The Pentagon’s highly anticipated plan to deliver aid to suffering Palestinians via a floating pier off the Gaza Strip has encountered almost immediate logistical and security setbacks, officials said Tuesday, marking an inauspicious start to the mission intended to ease a severe humanitarian crisis there. After desperate people seized food destined for a United Nations warehouse over the weekend, U.S., Israeli and aid officials have begun discussing alternative routes into Gaza, said Maj. Gen.
military personnel shipped the pier to the Mediterranean and assembled it at great cost in recent weeks. The obstacles facing the operation, which began making deliveries into Gaza on Friday, are another reflection of the complex conditions created by the war between Israeli forces and Hamas militants, and the acute humanitarian crisis the conflict has engendered. According to officials with the U.N.’s World Food Program , 10 trucks’ worth of food assistance were delivered from the U.S.
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