 On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, WTOP News. 12.35 on WTOP Thursday. Now we turn this morning here at WTOP to the crisis in the Middle East to update you. The UN, United Nations, says it is not able to deliver humanitarian aid to southern Gaza through the only road right now approved by Israel because of a spike in criminal activity and nearby Israeli military operations. The U.S. had hoped that a floating pier in the waters of northern Gaza would allow ships to offload.