ガザに浮桟橋設置、支援物資の搬入開始 米軍

【エルサレムＡＦＰ＝時事】米中央軍（ＣＥＮＴＣＯＭ）は１７日、パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区の海岸に設置した浮桟橋から人道支援物資の搬入を開始したと発表した。（写真は、イスラエル・アシュドッド港ではしけに積み込まれる人道支援物資。米中央軍〈ＣＥＮＴＣＯＭ〉提供）
　米中央軍は「きょう（現地時間）午前９時（日本時間同日午後３時）ごろ、ガザの浮桟橋から人道支援物資を載せたトラックが搬入作業を始めた」と発表。米軍兵士は上陸しなかったと付け加えた。
　浮桟橋は１６日に設置された。近日中に約５００トンの支援物資がガザ地区に運び込まれるとしている。
　米中央軍は１６日、ガザ地区にほど近いイスラエルのアシュドッド（Ａｓｈｄｏｄ）港で、はしけに支援物資が積み込まれる様子を捉えた写真を公開した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/05/17-20:01）

The US military said aid deliveries began Friday via a temporary pier in Gaza aimed at ramping up emergency humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
Today at approximately 9 a.m. (Gaza time), trucks carrying humanitarian assistance began moving ashore via a temporary pier in Gaza, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement, adding that no US troops went ashore.
This is an ongoing, multinational effort to deliver additional aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza via a maritime corridor that is entirely humanitarian in nature, it said.
The pier was successfully anchored on Thursday, with around 500 tonnes of aid expected to enter the Palestinian territory in the coming days.
Photos released on Thursday by CENTCOM showed humanitarian aid being lifted onto a barge in the nearby Israeli port of Ashdod.
The Palestinian territory is facing famine after an Israeli siege brought dire shortages of food as well as safe water, medicines and fuel for its 2.4 million people.
The arrival of occasional aid convoys has slowed to a trickle since Israeli forces took control last week of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing.
The UN has said that opening up land crossing points and allowing more trucks convoys into Gaza is the only way to stem the spiralling humanitarian crisis.
The Gaza war broke out after Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,170 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Israel's devastating military retaliation has killed at least 35,272 people, mostly civilians, according to the health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza.