First aid shipments arrive in Gaza via new pier, U.S. military says

• USAID director Samantha Power warned that famine had begun in northern Gaza.
• Aid deliveries to southern Gaza have been pinched for more than a week, AP reports.

Driving the news: The aid trucks began moving into Gaza at about 9am local time, U.S. Central Command wrote on X, noting that no U.S. troops went ashore.

• "This is an ongoing, multinational effort to deliver additional aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza via a maritime corridor that is entirely humanitarian in nature, and will involve aid commodities donated by a number of countries and humanitarian organizations," it added.

The big picture: The main border crossing into southern Gaza, in Rafah, has been closed for more than a week, since Israeli forces seized control of the Palestinian side.

• Israel agreed to increase humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza in early April, after the Israeli military's killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in airstrikes.
• However, U.S. officials have said that the increased aid hasn't been sufficient to help those suffering in Gaza.

• "It is not enough. We still need to get more aid in and around Gaza," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in late April.

Zoom out: The Israeli military said that dozens of Israeli protesters on Friday attacked a truck in the West Bank in an attempt to prevent aid reaching Gaza, AP reported.

• The truck was reportedly carrying commercial goods, not aid.

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