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FIRST AID FLOWS INTO GAZA OVER MASSIVE U.S. PIER

Trucks began moving Friday into the Palestinian enclave, where Israel’s assault
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May 17, 2024, 8:55 AM GMT+2 / Updated May 17, 2024, 3:59 PM GMT+2
By Chantal Da Silva, Richard Engel and Gabe Joselow

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid began moving ashore into Gaza Friday using a
temporary pier built by the United States, delivering desperately needed
supplies to the besieged Palestinian enclave.

The floating dock is part of a makeshift effort to stave off a possible famine
in Gaza, where Israel’s military assault has shut off a number of crossings that
are crucial for supplies of food, fuel and other aid.




Israeli forces pressed on with sweeping operations against Hamas in the north
and south of the enclave, while the country's lawyers defended its ground
offensive in Rafah at the United Nations' top court.

The aid trucks began moving into Gaza at around 9 a.m. local time (2 a.m. ET),
the U.S. Central Command said in a post on X, a day after the military finished
installing the pier.

"No U.S. troops went ashore in Gaza," CENTCOM said. "This is an ongoing,
multinational effort to deliver additional aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza
via a maritime corridor that is entirely humanitarian in nature," it added,
noting that aid was being donated by a number of countries and humanitarian
organizations.

Britain said that its aid was among that delivered via the pier.



"UK aid has been successfully delivered to the Gaza shore today, in the first
delivery across the US-built temporary pier. The first of 8,400 shelter coverage
kits — temporary shelters made up of plastic sheeting — have arrived in Gaza,
alongside aid from the US and UAE," the U.K. government said in a statement,
adding that more aid would follow in the coming weeks.



The recently installed Trident Pier on the Gaza coast on Thursday.U.S. Central
Command via AP



The Rafah crossing, the main entry point for aid into Gaza, has been shut for
nearly two weeks after Israeli forces seized the Palestinian side as part of a
ground assault that has seen them push deeper into eastern Rafah and force
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to evacuate the city once designated a
"safe zone."

The nearby Kerem Shalom crossing — where four Israeli soldiers were killed in a
recent Hamas attack — was also closed, but the Israel Defense Forces said it has
since opened, along with a separate entry point, the "Western Erez" crossing.

The Biden administration has expressed growing frustration over conditions in
Gaza, warning it will suspend the shipment of certain arms if the U.S. ally
moves ahead with a full-scale invasion of Rafah.

The IDF said Friday that troops continued to operate across "several locations"
in the city and had dismantled a long-range rocket launch site.

It also said troops had “expanded combat zones and intensified operational
control” around Jabalia in northern Gaza, where thousands of people have been
displaced by renewed combat in areas the IDF previously said it had cleared.



Israel defended its operations in Rafah, saying they were presently "limited,"
at the International Court of Justice Friday, in a case brought against South
Africa accusing the country of genocide over its Gaza offensive. But Defense
Minister Yoav Gallant has said more troops are expected to join the ground
operation.

Local health officials say more than 35,000 people have been killed in Gaza
since Israel launched its assault following Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks, in which some
1,200 people were killed and around 250 others taken hostage, according to
Israeli officials.

Both Israel and the U.S. have rejected the allegations of genocide.

As the fighting continues, humanitarian groups and doctors have sounded the
alarm over the limited flow of aid into Gaza in recent days.



Displaced Palestinians line up to buy water from a truck next to their temporary
camp Friday in Rafah.AFP - Getty Images



While bringing in food and other supplies to Gaza by land is far more efficient,
recent convoys have been attacked by Israeli settlers and activist groups
seeking to prevent aid from reaching Gaza as long as Hamas is still holding
Israeli hostages.

Some of the trucks have come from neighboring Jordan. Two senior Jordanian
officials told NBC News their convoys have been attacked by Israeli hardliners,
and that the Israeli army has failed to address the problem sufficiently.



Palestinian American doctor Adam Hamawy said aid of all kinds is urgently needed
in Rafah, where he has been volunteering at one of the last functioning
hospitals in the city amid increasingly worrying circumstances. 

“I see little kids running around that are basically skin and bones," he told
NBC News on Wednesday. "Food becomes an issue where everyone is basically having
a minimal meal a day."

The United Nations thanked the U.S. for its efforts on Thursday, but also warned
that the flow of aid into Gaza could not be dependent on the temporary pier.

A ship sits near the pier Thursday.Abdel Kareem Hana / AP

State Department spokesman Vedant Patel emphasized in a news briefing that the
U.S. pier was meant to be “additive to the other routes” facilitating aid into
Gaza.

“Although this is a new mechanism of assistance for Gaza, more, of course, must
be done,” he said.

Israel has laid blame for delays reopening the Rafah crossing on Egypt, with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling CNBC's Sara Eisen in an
interview on Wednesday, "we want to see it open." Egypt has said Israel is
squarely to blame for keeping the crossing closed since its takeover of the
Palestinian side.



The construction of the U.S. pier comes as the U.N.'s aid chief warned that
famine had become an immediate risk in Gaza as food dwindled in the enclave.

“Stocks of food which were in place already in southern Gaza are running out. I
think we’re talking about almost none left,” Martin Griffiths,
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief
Coordinator, told Reuters in an interview in Geneva.

Patel said Thursday that the U.S. was "deeply concerned about the reports
indicating worsening conditions and imminent famine in Gaza."

"Israel needs to do more to urgently provide sustained and unimpeded access for
humanitarian assistance to enter both northern and southern Gaza," he said.


Chantal Da Silva

Chantal Da Silva reports on world news for NBC News Digital and is based in
London.


Richard Engel

NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent, Host of MSNBC's "On Assignment with
Richard Engel"


Gabe Joselow

Gabe Joselow is a producer at NBC News.

Courtney Kube and Mahalia Dobson contributed.


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