Humanitarian aid has reached Gaza’s coast via the U.S.-built pier in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday for the first time.

Getting the pier and causeway operational has been more than two months in the making, and it is viewed by officials in the United States as a way to supplement the primary way of getting aid to Palestinians, which is by land, through crossings between Gaza and Egypt and Gaza and Israel. President Joe Biden directed the military to construct the pier to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis back in early March.