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The Port of Gaza is a small port near the Rimal district of Gaza City, Gaza. It was the home port of Palestinian fishing-boats and the base of the Palestinian Naval Police, a branch of the Palestinian National Security Forces. Under the Oslo II Accord, the activities of the Palestinian Naval Police are restricted to 6 nautical miles from the coast. Since 2007, the Port of Gaza has been under an Israeli-imposed naval blockade as part of a blockade of the Gaza Strip, and activities at the port have been restricted to small-scale fishing.

The port and more than 90% of docked vessels were destroyed by the Israeli belligerent during the Gaza war; the damage included targeted aerial strikes on fishing vessels and maritime artillery impacts.

In 2024, the United States Army and Navy began constructing a floating pier at the Port of Gaza to bring in food to the people of the Gaza Strip. The pier was actually built in next door Israel and moved to Gaza. The United States and other countries also built an offshore platform a kilometer away from this pier. The aid was moved from the platform to this pier. On May 20, the pier was damaged due to rains and wind. In July 2024, the pier was permanently dismantled.

The pier was part of a premeditated plan masterminded in November 2023, by the then-Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz and Cyprus to bypass UNRWA.