WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. military has begun building a pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave devastated by more than six months of Israeli military offensive , the Pentagon said Thursday.
This pier will be operational by early May.
“US military ships, including the USNS Benavidez, have begun constructing a temporary pier and submersible causeway,” Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder told reporters.
The construction of this temporary port was announced last month by US President Joe Biden. (Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart, Jean-Stéphane Brosse for the French version)
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