'I rolled off the couch and put my foot in about 10 inches of water,' said Kendra Fagan.
The U.S. and Israel have said they hope to have the mobile pier in place and operations underway by early May.This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the USNS Roy P. Benavidez offshore from the Gaza Strip, April 27, 2024. JERUSALEM, Israel — A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid intoare offshore of the enclave and building out a floating platform for the operation, which the Pentagon said Monday will cost at least $320 million.
A satellite image from Sunday by Planet Labs PBC showed pieces of the floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea alongside the Benavidez. Measurements of the vessel match known features of the Benavidez, a Bob Hope-class vehicle cargo ship operated by the Military Sealift Command. Under the plan by the U.S. military, aid will be loaded onto commercial ships in Cyprus to sail to the floating platform now under construction off Gaza. The pallets will be loaded onto trucks, which will be loaded onto smaller ships that will travel to a metal, floating two-lane causeway. The 550-meter causeway will be attached to the shore by the Israeli Defense Forces.
Now Israeli military positions sit on either side of the port, which initially had been built, as part of an effort led by World Central Kitchen, out of the rubble of buildings leveled by Israel. That effort halted after on April 1 as they traveled in clearly marked vehicles on a delivery mission authorized by Israel. The organization says it is resuming its work in Gaza.
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