The new push for aid came in the final hours before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which could start as early as Sunday evening.
A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza was on its way to the Mediterranean on Sunday, three days after President Biden announced plans to increase aid deliveries by sea to the besieged enclave where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are going hungry. The new push for aid came in the final hours before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which could start as early as Sunday evening, depending on the sighting of a crescent moon.
The Civil Defense Department said that at least nine Palestinians, including children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City late Saturday. Video that it shared showed one rescuer placing the body of a dead infant on a sofa amid the wreckage. Elsewhere, the bodies of 15 people, including women and children, were taken to the main hospital in the central town of Deir al Balah on Sunday, according to an Associated Press journalist.
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