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Four US Army vessels left a military base in the state of Virginia on Tuesday with 100 soldiers and equipment to build a temporary port in Gaza for aid deliveries as announced by President Joe Biden last week.
US Army Brigadier General Brad Hinson said the pier would allow the offloading of aid from larger to smaller vessels and create a long pier to bring it to shore. It is expected to take 60 days to build, despite concerns from aid agencies that people in Gaza cannot wait that long.
A charity ship left Cyprus earlier on Tuesday loaded with food for Gaza in the first mission of its kind to bring supplies to the war-torn enclave.
Meanwhile, Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah group intensified strikes throughout Tuesday with Israeli jets shelling two locations deeper into east Lebanon and away from the frontier, sparking concern of an all-out war between the two warring factions.
Ceasefire negotiations continue in Gaza and Doha as Qatar's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson said that as a mediator Qatar was pushing both sides to agree.
The latest death toll on the 158th day of the war stands at 31,184 killed and more than 72,889 injured since the war began in October.