The US military will build a temporary port on the Gaza coast to send humanitarian aid. US President Joe Biden made the official announcement in his State of the Union address. Relief aid sent to the Palestinians through the port will increase significantly and it will be possible to send hundreds of additional trucks per day, officials said. However, under this, no US troops will be sent to Gaza soil.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has warned that a quarter of Gaza’s population is now on the brink of famine.
However, U.S. officials say it will take several weeks to complete the construction of the temporary port. Large ships can come to this port with food, water, medicine, and temporary shelter materials.
Initially, these ships will go to Gaza via Cyprus. Israeli authorities will carry out security checks in Cyprus. He mentioned the situation in Gaza as heartbreaking. He said, “We are working for a quick ceasefire that will last at least six weeks”.
US to build temporary port on Gaza coast:The US has previously airlifted humanitarian aid into Gaza. The Israeli military has been conducting ground operations and airstrikes in Gaza since October 7, when Hamas entered Israeli territory, killing 12 people and taking 253 hostages. More than 30,800 people have been killed so far in the Israeli campaign in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas in Gaza.
However, it is not yet clear who will ensure the safety of the aid in Gaza. There is no deep sea port in Gaza. That is why the United States was urgently looking for ways to get relief supplies from ships.
U.S. officials told CBS that the construction of the pier is planned by the Virginia-based Seventh Transportation Brigade. However, due to the situation in Gaza, the US administration is publicly expressing interest in doing so quickly.
That brigade was created to speed up this kind of work. However, no military ship has yet left the United States to go to Gaza for this purpose.
Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan, the senior US naval commander in the Middle East, told BBC Ready Four that such a plan could be implemented. But he said taking relief by land is the most effective way to get there so far.
However, he also warned about the safety of the work of taking relief materials from the port to land. So far over a hundred people have been killed en route to the relief convoy.
The World Health Organization says relief efforts must be accelerated as children starve to death in northern Gaza. Aid lorries are now entering Gaza through the Egyptian-controlled Rafah crossing. But northern Gaza, where Israel has conducted ground operations, has been virtually isolated for the past several months.
On February 20, the World Food Program announced that it had cut off food supplies to northern Gaza due to looting, violence, and anarchy.
Several other countries, including the United States, have talked about airdropping food, but aid organizations say this may be the last thought. But even through this, it will not be possible to supply according to the demand.
Earlier, the United States had dropped relief supplies from airplanes. An independent UN expert said on Thursday that Israel is conducting a “no-food campaign” against Palestinians in Gaza. “The picture of hunger in Gaza is unbelievable and you are doing nothing,” UN Special Envoy for Food Michael Fakhry told the UN Human Rights Council.
Meanwhile, a faction of Hamas withdrew from the talks in Cairo. There was also no agreement on a ceasefire.
It was expected that a 40-day ceasefire would begin as the month of Ramadan approached. But that did not happen despite the efforts of mediators from Egypt and Qatar.
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