The US military has completed a temporary pier for aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip. Construction work on the floating jetty, which consists of two parts, has been completed, it was reported on Tuesday. However, the move to the coast will be postponed due to bad weather.
“High winds and high waves are forecast for today,” Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh explained. Under these circumstances, transport is too “unsafe”. That’s why people are waiting for better weather in the port of the Israeli city of Ashdod. The US Regional Command (Central Command) is ready to “get the pier in place in the near future,” Singh continued.
Help by sea will arrive soon
In the future, the US wants to bring urgently needed relief supplies for the population in the Gaza Strip to the coastal strip via a sea corridor. Because the Gaza Strip itself has no port, the US military started building a temporary jetty in April. According to the information, the costs are at least 320 million dollars (about 297 million euros).
Assistance by land is hardly possible
Aid agencies have long criticized the fact that not enough humanitarian supplies are reaching the Gaza Strip by land. The closure of the two border crossings, Kerem Shalom and Rafah, has further aggravated the situation in recent days.
Fighters from the radical Islamist group Hamas fired rockets at the Kerem Shalom crossing on the border with Israel on Sunday. The border crossing therefore remained closed until Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Israeli army also took control of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt.
Source: Krone
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