UK weighing sending troops into Gaza to distribute aid

Risk-filled mission to escort aid from US-built floating pier into combat zone under consideration in defence ministry

Britain's defence ministry is considering sending troops into Gaza to escort trucks of aid being driven off a giant floating pier built by the US military, a UK defence source has said.

The pier is due to be completed next month in the eastern Mediterranean, and then it will be pushed towards the Gaza shore. But the US president, Joe Biden, has pledged that American forces managing the project will not set foot on land there.