The United States may not return the pier due to the series of consecutive attacks on humanitarian agencies that have made it difficult to transport support to civilians. The hunger situation is catastrophic, says the UN.
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The US floating dock set up to bring aid to Gaza is being removed due to bad weather, and Washington is considering not replacing it unless aid starts reaching the population again, US officials said Friday.
While the structure built by the U.S. military has helped bring desperately needed food and other goods to the Gaza Strip, most of that aid is still sitting in the adjacent storage yard because of the difficulties they have had. aid agencies to transport it to areas of that Palestinian territory. where it is most urgent and that storage space is almost full.
The pier was essential to enter Gaza more than 6.8 million kilos of foodbut has faced several setbacks.
Rough seas damaged the pier just days after it began operating, but the biggest challenge has been the fact that the The humanitarian columns stopped transporting aid. from the dock storage area to Gaza, to put it in the hands of civilians, because they have been targeted by attacks.
Israeli pause in operation has no effect on humanitarian aid to Gaza
The US officials were quoted on anonymity by the US news agency Associated Press (AP) because they were talking about military movements.
On October 7 of last year, Israel declared a war in the Gaza Strip to “eradicate” the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, hours after it carried out an attack of unprecedented proportions in Israeli territory, killing 1,194 people, most civilians.
Since 2007, in power in Gaza and classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) also took 251 hostages that day, 120 of whom remain in captivity and 41 have died in the meantime, according to the most recent assessment by the Israeli army.
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The war, which this Friday marked 266 days and continues to threaten to spread to the entire Middle East region, has so far developed in the Gaza Strip. At least 37,765 dead and 86,429 injuredin addition to some 10,000 missing people, most of them civilians, presumably buried in the rubble after more than eight months of war, according to updated figures from local authorities.
The conflict has also displaced nearly two million people, plunging the overcrowded and impoverished Palestinian enclave into a severe humanitarian crisis, with more than 1.1 million people in “catastrophic hunger” that is taking its toll.the highest number ever recorded” by the UN in studies on food security in the world.
Source: Observadora
