WASHINGTON — The US completed construction of a humanitarian pier on Gaza’s coast Thursday, and hundreds of pounds of aid will begin to flow into the war-torn area soon, according to the Pentagon.

"After the period of expected high seas, the pier will be rapidly re-anchored to the coast of Gaza and resume delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza." MORE: US military pier to deliver humanitarian ...

Last week, while the pier was still operational, Pentagon spokesman Major General Patrick Ryder said that it had enabled 569 metric tons of humanitarian assistance to get to the beaches of Gaza.

Operations at the US humanitarian aid pier were shut down again on Friday night, US military officials announced. According to the officials, operations at the pier halted this time due to the ...

But even in those first few moments, he noted the pier would increase the amount of humanitarian aid getting into Gaza but that Israel “must do its part” and let more aid in. MARCH 8 ...

Humanitarian workers have started moving tons of aid that piled up at a U.S.-built pier off the Gaza coast to warehouses in the besieged Palestinian territory, the United Nations said Saturday ...

Biden announced the construction of the floating pier two months ago as part of efforts to ramp up humanitarian aid to Gaza. Maj. Pete Nguyen, a Pentagon spokesman, said Thursday that parts of the ...

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This pier is hardly the humanitarian equivalent of a D-Day beachhead. As Herodotus told his anecdote about the Persian setback, King Xerxes, who was on the way to conquering the Greeks ...