Humanitarian organizations tasked with moving the aid refuse to resume operations due to security concerns.
A U.S. soldier gestures as trucks loaded with humanitarian aid arrive at the U.S.-built floating pier in Gaza on Tuesday. | Leo Correa/APAid is now flowing reliably onto the beach in Gaza via the troubled U.S. military-built pier — but it is still not reaching any of the desperate Gazans inside the enclave.on the beach awaiting distribution, as the humanitarian organizations tasked with moving the aid refuse to resume operations due to security concerns, according to U.S.
The pier resumed normal operations on Tuesday after a scheduled maintenance pause on Monday, according to a Pentagon spokesperson. The resumption follows weeks of intermittent operations, as bad weather forced U.S. military personnel to remove, repair and then re-anchor the pier to the beach several times. On Sunday, U.S. military personnel moved 720 metric tons, or 1.5 million pounds, of aid across the pier to the beach, the most delivered on a single day so far, Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen.
The Israel Defense Forces used a truck that bore the appearance of an aid vehicle — but did not have an aid group insignia — to travel inside Gaza to rescue the four from the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central part of the enclave, two senior aid representatives working inside Gaza said. The IDF also landed a helicopter near the pier as a staging ground for exfiltration.
The spokesperson said officials working on the pier have prioritized “shelf-stable aid that is able to withstand fluctuations in weather.”
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