(25 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Near city of Ashdod, Israel – 25 May 2024
1. Various of small U.S. military boat on beach
STORYLINE:
A U.S. military boat and what appeared to be a strip of docking area washed up on a beach near the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on Saturday.
The U.S. Central Command said that four of its Army vessels supporting the humanitarian aid mission in Gaza were affected by "heavy sea states" with two of them anchoring near the pier off the coast of the Strip and another two in Israel.
The American authorities said no injuries were reported and that U.S. personnel won’t enter Gaza Strip.
The U.S. is working with the Israeli army to recover the vessels, the Central Command said.
American officials hope the pier at maximum capacity can bring the equivalent of 150 truckloads of aid to Gaza each day.
That’s a fraction of the 600 truckloads of food, emergency nutritional treatments and other supplies that USAID says are needed each day to address the humanitarian crisis brought on by the Israel-Hamas war.
Aid workers warn Gaza is near famine.
Israeli restrictions on land crossings and a surge in fighting have cut deliveries of food and fuel in Gaza to the lowest levels since the first months of the war, international officials say.
Israel’s takeover this month of the Rafah border crossing, a key transit point for fuel and supplies for Gaza, has contributed to bringing aid operations near collapse, the U.N. and relief groups say.
Israeli bombardments and ground offensives in Gaza have killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians.
Israel launched its war in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed about 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.
Israel says around 100 hostages are still captive in Gaza, along with the bodies of around 30 more.
AP video by Tsafrir Abayov
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