British Troops could be Deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route, the has learned.
The US has said no American powers would go shorewards and an anonymous "outsider" would drive trucks along a drifting interstate onto the ocean side.
When the aid corridor opens next month, British troops may be assigned this task, according to reports.
Whitehall sources said no decision had been made and the issue had not yet crossed the prime minister's desk.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Israeli army declined to comment.
England has been very familiar in arranging the ocean borne help activity and Guard Secretary Award Shapps said the UK kept on playing "a main job in the conveyance of help in a joint effort with the US and other worldwide partners".
The conceivable job for English powers - known as "wet boots" by military organizers - would see them drive trucks off landing make onto the impermanent interstate and convey help to a protected circulation region shorewards.
British troops could be more vulnerable to attack from Hamas and other armed groups, despite the fact that significant efforts would be made to safeguard allied forces both offshore and onshore.
On Wednesday, a Unified Countries group needed to seek shelter when mortars arrived close to the arranged conveyance zone.
US defence officials confirmed an American army ship had begun work in the eastern Mediterranean to build a large floating pier.
Aid would be delivered there from Cyprus on large ships before being transferred into trucks and smaller landing craft. They said the floating causeway would be "several hundred metres long" and anchored firmly into the sand.
They said they hoped the new maritime corridor - which they call the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) operation - would ultimately deliver up to 150 trucks per day.
IDF vows to provide security for sea aid
The objective is to supplement, not replace, the land-based aid that is still insufficient to meet the need. At the moment, approximately 220 aid trucks arrive in Gaza via road on an average daily.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it will provide "security and logistics support for the JLOTS initiative… to enhance the entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip".
Israel's military will be responsible for anchoring the floating causeway to the beach and has been practising how to do this with American forces further north on the Israeli coast.
In a preparation with columnists, a senior US military authority expressed in light of the fact that there would be no American boots on the ground, many US fighters and mariners would live and rest adrift on a UK maritime vessel, RFA Sweatshirt Narrows.
He also made it clear that the aid would not be delivered ashore by US forces; rather, a "significant partner" would perform that function. He confirmed that this would not be a private military company but rather a foreign nation.
"We have a third party who will be driving the trucks down the pier," the US military official said. "Just a point of emphasis, there will be no US military boots on the ground. So, a third party is driving those trucks."
One UK source said nothing had been decided but there was a debate going on about "do we put wet boots on the beach, do we drive trucks onto the pier?".
The MoD declined to remark about the idea UK powers could drive trucks shorewards, however Mr Shapps said the team of RFA Pullover Narrows were fundamental to the UK's commitment, adding: "It is basic we lay out additional courses for essential helpful guide to contact individuals of Gaza."
He stated that for several weeks, specialized British military planning teams had been embedded in the US operational HQ in Tampa, Florida, as well as in Cyprus, to assist in the creation of the most secure and efficient maritime route.
The UK Hydrographic Office has also shared analysis of the Gazan shore with US planners to develop the pier.
More than six months into Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip, over half of its population of 2.2 million is crammed into the southern city of Rafah.
The UN has warned of a humanitarian catastrophe and Israel has faced international criticism for limiting the amount of aid reaching civilians by land.
Ziad Issa, the head of philanthropic strategy at ActionAid, told BBC Radio 4's Today developer: "A method for conveying help to Gaza is gladly received and will help a little, however the issue with this approach to conveying help is it will require investment and there are loads of calculated vulnerabilities about it."
He stated that allowing delivery trucks to enter Gaza through land crossings would be more effective. Mr. Issa stated that Israeli forces are preventing trucks "loaded with tonnes of medical supplies, with food" from entering Gaza. Aid workers are requesting that Israel open a land crossing at Erez permanently.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began on 7 October.
The IDF sent off the hostile after around 1,200 Israelis and outsiders - for the most part regular citizens - were killed and 253 others were returned to Gaza as prisoners, as per Israeli counts.
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