The United States will begin construction “very soon” on a pier to boost deliveries of desperately needed aid to Gaza, the Pentagon says Tuesday.
“All the necessary vessels are within the Mediterranean region and standing by,” Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder tells journalists, referring to the watercraft carrying equipment for the pier project.
“We are positioned to begin construction very soon,” Ryder adds.
The facility will consist of an offshore platform for the transfer of aid from larger to smaller vessels, and a pier to bring it ashore.
Plans for a pier off the coast of the Palestinian enclave were first announced by US President Joe Biden in early March as aid deliveries were held up on the ground.
US officials have said the effort will not involve “boots on the ground” in Gaza, but American troops will come close to the war-torn territory as they construct the pier, for which Israeli forces are to provide security on the ground.
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