U.S. military to build port to ferry Gaza aid

CYPRUS
Larnaca
LEBANON
100km 60 miles
ISRAEL
SYRIA 
JORDAN
EGYPT

The U.S. army is to set up a floating pier off the coast of Gaza to deliver aid to Palestinians cut off by Israeli restrictions on humanitarian land access

MARITIME CORRIDOR
Humanitarian aid to be collected at port city of Larnaca, Cyprus, where Israeli officials can screen shipments

Port to be erected on Gaza’s shoreline, north of Wadi Gaza Crossing

PORT CONSTRUCTION
Led by 7th Transportation Brigade, could take 30 to 60 days, with troops operating offshore, not on ground

Construction ships to be protected by armed escorts

Erez Crossing Closed since Oct 7
Gaza City
GAZA STRIP
Karni Crossing Closed since 2011
Khan Younis
Rafah 
EGYPT
Wadi Gaza Crossing
Israeli checkpoint
Wadi Gaza 
ISRAEL 
5km 3 miles

Kerem Shalom Reopened since Dec
Rafah Crossing Reopened since Oct

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
570,000 Gazans – one quarter of population – on brink of famine, UN warns

Children dying of starvation in northern Gaza, where some 300,000 people live with little food or clean water, WHO says

Around 1.7 million people – more than 75% of population – displaced and over 30,800 killed in Gaza since Oct 7


Sources: AP, NYT, UNRWA, WHO, ISW
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