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ΗΠΑ: Ολοκληρθη ;κεηκατασκεχνητολιμα&iota ;ογιαπαετνθρωπισ τικor βοεια Γζα /></p> <p> </source> </p> <p>The US military has completed the<strong> construction of a temporary artificial port</strong> to facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries to the <strong>Gaza Strip</strong>by sea, but cannot install it in place for now due to adverse weather conditions, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.</p> <p>In the face of delays and obstacles raised by Israel in the delivery of humanitarian aid via land routes in the Palestinian enclave, US President <strong>Joe Biden </strong> announced in early March a plan to build a temporary artificial port.</p> <p>Construction costs were expected to <strong>come to about 320 million dollars.</strong></p> <p>“The construction of the two parts of the artificial harbor (…) is finished” and<strong>they now need to be moved to their deployment site, Sabrina Sigg, deputy spokeswoman for the US Department of Defense, told accredited reporters.</p> <p><strong>There were “high winds and high waves” yesterday< /strong>, making it “dangerous” to place these elements in the designated spot, he clarified.</p> <p>The artificial harbor and US warships involved in the operation to build the <strong>“they are still in the port of Ashdod,” Israel</strong>, he noted.</p> <p>Work was moved to Ashdod due to weather conditions last week. When weather permits, the port will be placed on the coast of the enclave by Israeli military, to prevent the deployment of US forces.</strong></p> <p>Furthermore, Washington <strong>characterized “ “unacceptable” the closure by the Israeli armed forces of two of the most important checkpoints from which humanitarian aid enters </strong>in the enclave, in Rafah and in Kerem Shalom, through the mouth of a White House spokesman.</p> <p><strong>“The crossing points that were closed must be reopened, it is unacceptable that they were closed,” said Karine Jean-Pierre ,</strong> according to which Kerem Shalom is expected to reopen today.</p> <p>The war broke out on October 7, when members of the Gaza Strip-based military wing of Hamas launched an unprecedented raid on southern sectors of Israeli territory, which killed 1,170 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data.</p> <p>In Israel's wide-scale military operation in the Palestinian enclave in the Gaza Strip with the declared goal of “annihilating” Hamas, at least 34,789 people have lost their lives to date, the majority of them civilians, according to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Islamic movement.</p> <p>APE-MPE< /p><br /> <noindex></p> <div class=Source: www.philenews.com

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