(25 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza Strip – 25 June 2024
1. Shot from vessel in the Mediterranean Sea looking into Gaza showing destroyed buildings and pan to vessel docking at floating pier
2. Pan from destroyed destroyed buildings and pan to ship docking at pier
3. Pier
4. US troops at pier
5. US troops standing on pier
6. Ship with aid truck docked at pier
7. Aid trucks off loaded
8. Pan of truck carrying aid driving on pier into Gaza
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Samuel Miller, the commander of a joint task force, U.S. Army 7th Transportation Brigade:
“Our mission out here is to receive those humanitarian assistance pallets offshore from a larger vessel onto that floating pier, to be transferred on a smaller vessel , to bring it here to this platform which you stand on and offload those trucks into (inaudible) in Gaza. This particular pier currently in place, in the beach up here in Gaza ,there’s an active combat zone up here in Gaza ”
10. Aid truck off loaded from vessel
11. US troop directing aid truck as it leaves vessel
12. Aid truck leaving vessel, driving on floating pier
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Samuel Miller, the commander of a joint task force, U.S. Army 7th Transportation Brigade:
“We have up to a 1,000 packs transfer everyday at sea.so, we’re transferring on and off the vessels onto here. So, that’s constant movement that has to be synchronised with the movement of those trucks and those vessels. So, everything comes together."
14. Various of destroyed buildings in Gaza as seen off coast
15. Destroyed area with Israeli flag waving on top
16. Various of floating pier
17. Tilt down of vessel
18. US troops preparing for vessel to leave floating pier
19. Various vessel sailing away
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Samuel Miller, the commander of a joint task force, U.S. Army 7th Transportation Brigade:
“We had some challenges with the sea state, but my soldiers and sailors have stepped up and reset and now we are currently back out herald we will push Humanitarian supplies . So, for me, the mode of my unit is resolute so we resolute and we continue to push those supplies to the people that need it.”
21. Shot from Mediterranean Sea looking into Gaza showing smoke billowing
22. SOUNDBITE (English) U.S. Navy Capt. Joel Stewart, the commodore of Naval Beach Group 1:
“Its a compact zone and and you’re reminded by that but we are not combatants in the conflict , we’re here on a humanitarian initiative supported USAID agency for this. I talk to my sailor on a daily basis and all of my sailors, the marines the US merchant marines they believe in this mission.”
23. US flag waving on vessel
24. US Marines inside US vessel in the Mediterranean Sea
25. Various of Mediterranean Sea
26. Various of ships and vessels at the Mediterranean Sea
STORYLINE:
With U.S. soldiers within shouting distance of Gaza’s bombed-out coast, the American military is taking another stab at delivering aid to hungry Palestinians by sea.
After several fits and starts, a $230 million pier is up and running again. The U.S. military invited reporters for a tour of the facility on Tuesday, marking the first time international media has witnessed its operations first hand.
International journalists have not been allowed to enter Gaza independently since the Israel-Hamas war began Oct. 7.
The pier resumed operations last week after its fourth pause in operations due to rough seas.
Israeli and Cypriot drivers drove the trucks off the vessels and headed down the 400 meter (yard) causeway to the beach where they unloaded pallets of aid.
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