US President Joe Biden announced plans to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza in a new move aimed at increasing aid deliveries in the war-battered Strip during his State of the Nation television address on Thursday. The move comes as warnings that Gaza is steps away from a famine grow louder and aid agencies report continuing difficulties in distributing supplies as fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas intensify. Over a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are said to be experiencing famine-like conditions and 1 in 6 children under the age of two in the northern governorates are …