US Ship With Equipment for Building a Pier Is on Its Way to Gaza

United States Air Force drops humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on March 9, 2024. Demonstrators hold flags and placards as they attend a march in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza, in London, March 9, 2024.

A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza was on its way to the Mediterranean on Sunday, three days after U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to ramp up aid deliveries by sea to the besieged enclave where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been going hungry.