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The U.S. is wrapping up a pier to bring aid to Gaza by sea.
But danger and uncertainty lie ahead
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the coming
days, the U.S. military in the eastern
Mediterranean is expected to jab one
end of a hulking metal dock — the
length of five U.S. football fields — into
a beach in northern Gaza.
And that may be the end of the easy
part for the Biden administration’s two-
month-long, $320 million effort to open
a sea route to get humanitarian aid into
Gaza, with dangers and uncertainties
ahead for aid delivery teams as fight-
ing surges and the plight of starving
Palestinians grows more dire.
For President Joe Biden, the Pentagon’s
new floating pier and causeway are
a gamble, an attempted workaround
to the challenges of getting aid into
Gaza from intensifying war and the
restrictions its ally Israel has placed at
land crossings since Hamas’ deadly
attacks on Israel launched the conflict
in October.
In this image provided by the U.S. Army, soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) and sailors
attached to the MV Roy P. Benavidez assemble the Roll-On, Roll-Off Distribution Facility (RRDF), or floating pier, off the
shore of Gaza on April 26, 2024.
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