The Pentagon on Tuesday said that construction of a temporary harbour to deliver aid to the embattled Gaza Strip will soon begin. “All the necessary vessels are within the Mediterranean region and standing by… to begin construction when given the order to do that,” said US Department of Defence spokesman Pat Ryder. “We are positioned to begin construction very soon, in the very near future.” Ryder added that construction was likely to begin by early May at the latest. The US government in March announced that it wanted to set up a a temporary harbour in the Mediterranean Sea off the Gaza Str…