WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to announce plans for the US military to establish a temporary port on the coast of the Gaza Strip in order to significantly widen the flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The United States along with “other like-minded countries” will set up a pier that can receive “large ships carrying food, water medicine and temporary shelters,” senior administration officials said Thursday.
Biden is set to make the announcement during tonight’s State of the Union address. US officials said that the current plan that the president intends to authorize will not require US troops on the ground in Gaza.
The effort is expected to increase the amount of humanitarian aid entering into Gaza by “hundreds of additional truckloads” per day, but will take “a number of weeks to plan and execute,” one official said.
