The US army and its partners plan to set up a temporary harbour on the coast of the embattled Gaza Strip to provide additional aid to civilians, according to a senior government representative in Washington. “Tonight in the speech, the president will announce that he’s directing the US military to lead an emergency mission to establish a port in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters,” the senior official said, referring to US President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address scheduled for Thursday evening. The pla…