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The United Nations has planned new routes within the Gaza Strip to transport aid from a US-built floating pier after crowds of desperate Palestinians intercepted 11 trucks, causing a halt to deliveries that continued for a third day on Tuesday. The temporary pier was anchored to a Gaza beach last Thursday as Israel comes under growing global pressure to allow more supplies into the besieged coastal enclave, where it is waging a war and where a famine looms. Operations began on Friday and 10 aid trucks were driven by UN contractors to a World Food Programme warehouse in Deir Al-Balah in Gaza. B…

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