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Trucks carrying desperately needed humanitarian aid have begun moving ashore into Gaza using a temporary pier delivered by the United States, the U.S. military said Friday.
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The U.S. completed the installation of a mobile pier in Gaza, a new means of getting desperately needed aid into the territory in the coming days. The Pentagon has said the effort could put U.S. forces in harm's way. NBC News' Richard Engel reports.
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President Biden said the floating pier will help alleviate Gaza's humanitarian crisis, but critics fear the operation will put U.S. troops and others at risk.
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A temporary pier built by the United States to help distribute humanitarian aid delivered by sea was anchored Thursday morning at a beach in Gaza, U.S. Central Command said.
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Any use of U.N. forces would have to be approved by the Security Council. "There first has to be peace to keep," said a U.N. spokesman.
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South Africa asked the court to order Israel to immediately withdraw from the southern Gaza city, where more than a million Palestinians had sought shelter from the war.
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The Republican-led House passed a bill that would put restrictions on the president's ability to withhold weapons transfers to Israel in a vote that drew attention to a divided Democratic caucus on the war in Gaza.
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It says Israel must be forced to stop its operation in Rafah, in a fresh bid to the UN's top court.
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The men were killed as they were fighting in a dense area, a spokesman said, adding that the incident was "under review."
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Palestinians in Gaza marked the Nakba, or "catastrophe," commemorating the time hundreds of thousands fled or were driven out during the war sparked by Israel's declaration of independence in 1948.
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