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The US military-built pier designed to carry badly needed aid into Gaza by boat has been reconnected to the beach in the besieged territory after it broke apart in storms and rough seas, and food and other supplies will begin to flow soon, US Central Command announced Friday. The section that connects to the beach in Gaza, the causeway, wasrebuilt nearly two weeks after heavy storms damaged it and abruptly halted what had already been a troubled delivery route. “Earlier this morning in Gaza, US forces successfully attached the temporary pier to the Gaza beach,” Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, deputy co…

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