US military building pier on Gaza coast to deliver much-needed aid

U.S. Navy ships and Army vessels are bringing logistical know-how and engineering might to an urgent and enormous challenge: fulfilling the U.S. promise to bring in aid by sea to starving Gazans.

Israel Defense Forces released video on Saturday that shows a wide, bulldozed area adjacent to the beach where trucks will load up on aid for distribution to areas of northern Gaza which have been largely cut off from humanitarian assistance.

The more difficult and complicated engineering work is happening off the coast, where U.S. servicemembers are working to implement a workaround solution to the bottleneck in aid reaching Gaza.

The project involves U.S. Navy ships including the MV Roy P. Benavidez, based in Newport News, Virginia and the U.S Army vessel USAV GEN. Frank S. Besson, based at Fort Eustis, Virginia.

The project has its own acronym: JLOTS, which stands for joint logistics over-the-shore capability. Put more simply, cargo ships carrying aid will offload onto a U.S. operated offshore pier, which will then be ferried to an 1,800-foot floating causeway to the shore.

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