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The pier project is the latest in a flurry of efforts to get more aid into the enclave — including by sea — amid warnings from the U.N. that a famine in Gaza is imminent.

Countries promised the fighter jets last year, but delivering them and training pilots have proved complex. Ukraine may start with as few as six, out of about 45 pledged.

As the United States continues providing Israel with munitions, the Pentagon will deliver food and other assistance to Gazans by sea and air.

Olena Zelenska’s office cited a scheduling conflict. The Russian opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya also declined an invitation.

Fund-raisers are borrowing heavily from business techniques to keep donations flowing to the military. The latest trend? Broad approaches that rely on networks of friends and acquaintances.

Olena Zelenska’s office cited a scheduling conflict. The Russian opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya also declined an invitation.

The fall of the city, when it came in mid-February, was brutal and fast. Soldiers fought for their lives. Many did not make it.

U.S. Air Force cargo planes dropped 36,800 ready-to-eat meals, in a joint operation with the Jordanian Air Force, but a Pentagon spokesman said were no plans to put U.S. forces on the ground.

The United Nations experts also said that they had “clear and convincing information” that hostages seized in Israel on Oct. 7 had been sexually abused in Gaza, and that they had looked into reports of abuse of Palestinians in Israeli detention.

UNRWA, the aid agency for Palestinians, is preparing to publish an investigation based on testimony from more than 100 detainees that accuses Israeli troops of abuse.