Middle East Crisis 2024 海陸空救援 美國總統面臨多重危機 U.S. to Build Pier to Allow Aid Into Gaza by Sea More aid trucks reached Gaza this week, but nowhere near prewar figures, U.N. data shows.

 

Middle East CrisisU.S. to Build Pier to Allow Aid Into Gaza by Sea

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   A U.S. airdrop of humanitarian aid over northern Gaza.

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   Displaced Palestinians waiting to receive food aid in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, which is sheltering more than a million displaced people.

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3. A mass burial in Rafah. More than 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza during the war, according to local health officials.

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4. An injured child who was rescued from the rubble of a destroyed house in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza.

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5. Children looking out from a destroyed house in Deir al Balah. Large areas of Gaza have been reduced to rubble.

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6. A fence in Tel Aviv displaying photos of Israeli hostages being held in Gaza. Talks that could free them have stalled.

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7. Masked men armed with guns and batons patrol the streets of Rafah. Civil order has been breaking down in Gaza.

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8. A makeshift camp in Rafah to house some of the vast numbers of displaced people who have fled their homes for the south.

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9. A funeral in Netanya, Israel, for a soldier killed in fighting in southern Gaza.

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Here’s what we know:

Officials said President Biden was expected to announce in his State of the Union on Thursday that the U.S. military would construct a floating pier off the Gaza Strip to let ships deliver tons of food and other aid.

• Questions remain about how aid delivered by sea would make its way to desperate Gazans.

• Hamas negotiators leave Cairo with no breakthrough in cease-fire talks.

• The war in Gaza has created several crises for President Biden.

• More aid trucks reached Gaza this week, but nowhere near prewar figures, U.N. data shows.

• South Africa asks the U.N.’s highest court to intervene to avert ‘genocidal starvation’ in Gaza.

• The I.M.F. agrees to a large bailout for Egypt, whose economy has been hit by the war.

Questions remain about how aid delivered by sea would make its way to desperate Gazans.

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A seaside scene in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, last month. The U.S. plan is to build a floating pier somewhere along the enclave’s coast. Credit...Mohammed Salem/Reuters

President Biden will announce in his State of the Union on Thursday that he is ordering the U.S. military to build a floating pier off Gaza, in what the White House called an “emergency mission” that would allow hundreds of truckloads of additional aid to be delivered by sea to Gazans who are on the brink of starvation.