An American military ship docked today, Friday, off the coast of the Gaza Strip. It is expected to participate in the work of constructing a floating sea dock, which Washington announced a plan to build last March, with the aim of providing humanitarian aid.
Anadolu Agency reported that a US Navy ship anchored last night several nautical miles off the coast of the Wadi Gaza region in the center of the Strip.
This ship is expected to begin construction of a floating pier off the coast of the Strip, according to previous American announcements.
Last March, US Central Command announced the sending of the first ship to the eastern Mediterranean to provide humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip by sea.
The US Central Command said in a statement at the time that the US Army’s “General Frank S. Beeson” logistical support ship left Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia “less than 36 hours after President Joe Biden announced that the United States would provide humanitarian aid to Gaza via… the sea”.
The ship “car
ries the first equipment to establish a temporary port for the delivery of vital humanitarian supplies,” the statement said.
On March 7, US President Joe Biden announced that his country’s army would build a temporary port on the coast of the Gaza Strip to deliver more humanitarian aid.
Days later, the US Department of Defense (the Pentagon) said in a statement that the port will be 500 meters long and will take about two months to build, with more than a thousand American soldiers participating.
This comes as construction operations continue on the concrete pier, which departs from the shore of the southernmost area of ??Gaza City, to complement the American pier, which will be constructed during the next two months.
According to local Palestinian sources, the pier being built on the Gaza coast from the rubble of homes destroyed by Israel during the war that has been going on for more than half a year, will be tasked with receiving aid shipments delivered by ships to the American port.
Since last March
15, two aid ships have arrived off the coast of Gaza from Cyprus, and their cargo was unloaded via buoys that transported the boxes to the concrete dock.
The international charity “World Central Kitchen” worked to receive this aid and redistribute it to residents of the Gaza Strip who are suffering from famine as a result of Israel’s restriction of food and humanitarian aid from entering them through land crossings.
Source: Maan News Agency