A US Army ship carrying enough material to build a temporary dock in Gaza departed this Sunday and sailed through the Mediterranean, three days after US President Joe Biden announced plans to increase sea aid to the Gaza Strip. besieged enclave.
The opening of the maritime corridor, accompanied by air deliveries from the United States, Jordan and other countries, is showing growing alarm over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and a new intention to circumvent Israel’s control over ground deliveries.
Israel said it welcomed sea deliveries and would inspect goods bound for Gaza before they left a staging area in nearby Cyprus.
For the past five months, the number of aid trucks entering the territory by land has been well below the 500 that arrived before the war, due to Israeli restrictions and security concerns.
Meanwhile, Biden redoubled his public criticism of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Biden said he believes Netanyahu “is hurting Israel more than helping Israel” in his war strategy against Hamas in Gaza, which is now in its sixth month.
Speaking to MSNBC journalist Jonathan Capehart on Saturday, the president expressed support for Israel’s right to pursue Hamas following the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, but said Netanyahu “must pay more attention to innocent lives.” that are being lost as a consequence of the actions taken.”
“There cannot be another 30,000 Palestinians dead,” he added, but in Gaza, the number of Palestinian victims continued to rise.
The Department of Civil Defense said at least nine Palestinians, including children, had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City on Saturday night.
Images shared by civil defense showed emergency personnel removing the dead and injured trapped in the collapsed house. A rescuer held a dead baby before leaving the limp body on a sofa in the middle of the ruins.
Elsewhere, the main hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah received the bodies of 15 people, including women and children, on Sunday, according to an AP journalist. All 15 were killed by Israeli artillery fire at a large tent camp for displaced Palestinians on the coast west of the southern city of Khan Younis, relatives said.
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