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The Defense Department is unhooking the temporary pier it set up in Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians following what a Pentagon spokeswoman on Tuesday said was a "perfect storm" of rough seas and weather that caused serious structural damage.

The pier has been plauged with problems from the very beginning.

The Pentagon admitted last week that none of the estimated 569 metric tons of aid ha been delivered to Palestinian civilians, but had been "intercepted" by looters.

The pier, which is used to carry humanitarian aid arriving by sea, is one of the few ways that food and other supplies are getting to Palestinians.

A US-built floating platform off the Gaza coast made for delivering humanitarian aid to Palestinians is being temporarily removed after it broke apar

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Deir Al-Balah (AP): Aid trucks entered Gaza from southern Israel on Sunday through a new agreement to bypass the Rafah crossing with Egypt after Israeli forces seized the Palestinian side of it earlier this month. But it was unclear if humanitarian...

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