 On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, WTOP News. WTOP at 235. Now to the crisis in the Middle East to update you here at WTOP this morning. The UN, United Nations, says it is not able to deliver humanitarian aid right now to southern Gaza through the only road approved by Israel because of a spike apparently in criminal activity and nearby Israeli military operations. The U.S. had hoped that a floating pier in the waters off northern Gaza would allow ships to offload.