WASHINGTON: The Pentagon says the US-built temporary pier taking humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians has been damaged in rough seas and weather and will be removed from the coast of Gaza to be repaired.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters Tuesday that over the next two days the pier will be pulled out and sent to the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, where US Central Command will repair it.
She says the fixes will take “at least over a week” and then the pier will need to be anchored back into the beach in Gaza.
The pier is one of the few ways that food, water and other supplies are getting to Palestinians who the UN says are on the brink of famine amid the nearly eight-month-old Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
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US-built pier in Gaza will need to be removed and repaired after damage from rough seas
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US-built pier in Gaza will need to be removed and repaired after damage from rough seas
- The pier is one of the few ways that food, water and other supplies are getting to Palestinians
Palestinian ministry says Israeli forces kill man in West Bank
- Violence has surged across the West Bank since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023 after an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel
JERICHO, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian health officials said Tuesday that Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded three others in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.
“The young man Saeed Nael Saeed Al-Sheikh, 24, was martyred by occupation gunfire in Jericho, and three others were injured to varying degrees,” the Ramallah-based health ministry said.
The man’s death was confirmed to AFP by Riad Eid, director of the Jericho Governmental Hospital.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment from AFP.
Violence has surged across the West Bank since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023 after an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel.
At least 1,033 Palestinians, including militants, have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the war started, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
During the same period, 45 Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed in Palestinian attacks in the territory, according to official Israeli figures.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967.
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