Today, Tuesday, the US Central Command (Centcom) announced the delivery of more than 569 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza via the floating dock, so far.
Centcom said on the X platform: “So far, more than 569 metric tons of humanitarian aid have been delivered through the temporary pier to the Gaza Strip to increase distribution operations from partners in the humanitarian field.”
On Friday, local Palestinian sources announced the beginning of the arrival of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid to the warehouses of the United Nations World Food Program in the city of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
In turn, the United Nations said that 10 trucks loaded with food aid were transported from the floating dock site by United Nations contractors, and arrived last Friday at the Deir al-Balah warehouse.
She indicated that she did not receive any assistance from the dock on Sunday and Monday.
The World Health Organization also announced on Friday that it had not received any medical supplies in the Gaza Strip since May 6.
American military officials had expected, in a media statement, that about 150 aid trucks would cross the floating dock daily into the Strip, but humanitarian workers have repeatedly stressed that the most effective way to alleviate severe humanitarian suffering in Gaza is to deliver aid through land crossings.
As a result of the war and Israeli restrictions, the residents of Gaza are suffering from “famine,” especially in the Gaza and northern governorates, in light of the severe scarcity of food, water, medicine, and fuel supplies due to the siege.
Since October 7, the Israeli war on Gaza has left more than 114,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.