US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that its personnel installed a temporary pier on the Gaza beach on Thursday morning, as part of a mission to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.
The leadership added in its account on the X platform that trucks carrying humanitarian aid are expected to begin moving to the Gaza coast in the coming days.
She explained that the United Nations would receive the aid and coordinate its distribution in the Gaza Strip, stressing that no American forces would enter Gaza.
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.
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 the residents of the Gaza Strip who are suffering from famine as a result of the Israeli occupation army restricting the entry of food and humanitarian aid to them through land crossings.
Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip since last October 7, leaving tens of thousands of victims, most of them children and women, a humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction of infrastructure, which led to Israel being brought before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing “genocide.”