US military builds terminal to deliver much-needed aid Gaza U.S. Central Command announced Friday that a rescue ship carrying aid had been reconnected to the besieged area's beach after a portion of it broke away amid the storm and rough seas, and that food and other supplies would soon begin to be delivered.
The embankment connecting the Gaza Beach was rebuilt after being damaged by a violent storm and suddenly interrupted this transportation route that was originally difficult to be difficult to reconcile.
“This morning, U.S. forces in Gaza successfully secured a makeshift dock on a Gaza beach,” Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters in a phone call on Friday. “We expect to resume the delivery of humanitarian assistance by sea in the coming days.”
Cooper said operations at the reconnected terminal will soon be ramped up, with the goal of shipping 1 million pounds (500 tons or 450 metric tons) of food and other supplies to Gaza through the terminal every two days.
The terminal had been in operation for just a week before a storm damaged it, making it difficult to meet delivery targets. Weather was a factor, and early efforts to get aid from the terminal to Gaza were disrupted as civilians desperate for food rushed trucks that aid agencies were using to bring food to warehouses for distribution.
However, it was gradually increasing its deliveries of relief supplies each day before the pier broke. Cooper said on Friday that lessons learned from the initial week of rescue operations gave him confidence that a higher level of rescue could now be achieved.
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USAID said in a statement that it was working with other U.S. government colleagues and humanitarian partners on the ground in Gaza to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of aid from the terminal “can resume, which we expect will occur in the coming days.”
Strong winds and high seas battered the area on May 25, breaking large parts of the causeway and stranding four Army vessels operating there, injuring three servicemen, one of whom is currently in critical condition. The damage to the causeway is the latest stumbling block in the ongoing Palestinian efforts to feed the hungry amid the eight-month Israel-Hamas conflict.
The sea route is another way to help deliver more aid to Gaza for a limited time, as Israel's offensive on the southern city of Rafah has made it difficult and sometimes impossible to deliver supplies via land routes, which are much more efficient. Israel's military operations in Rafah and military strikes on northern Gaza have also temporarily halted U.S. food airdrops.
Cooper said on Friday that the United States is also expected to resume airdrops in the next few days.
The government of President Joe Biden said from the beginning that the dock is not a comprehensive solution, and any number of assistance is helpful.
After the storm caused by the storm on May 25, most of the embankment roads were demolished and transported to the port of Israel for maintenance.
Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokesman, said that the other two other Israeli warships that were stranded on the Gaza coast were more water into the sand, and the Israeli Navy was assisting in repairing.
Democrats Biden announced the plan for the U.S. military to build a dock in the state of the state of love in early March. The military said that the initial cost of the dock's installation and investment was expected to be 320 million US dollars. Essence
The installation time was longer than the plan. On May 17, the first batch of trucks to assist the Gaza Strip drove to the dock.
The next day, aid finally began to reach those in need as officials rerouted convoys. Pentagon officials said more than 1,100 tons (1,000 metric tons) of aid had been delivered before the causeway broke in the storm.
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