Four US Army vessels depart a base in Virginia carrying about 100 soldiers and equipment they will need to build a temporary port on Gaza's coast for urgently needed aid deliveries.
The new facility -- which will consist of an offshore platform for transshipment of aid from larger to smaller vessels and a pier to bring it ashore -- will be up and running in 60 days, US Army Brigadier General Brad Hinson tells journalists.
“Once we get fully mission-capable, we will be able to push up to two million meals, or two million bottles of water, ashore each day,” Hinson says during a press conference at Joint Base Langley-Eustis.