Gaza – U.S. Aid Sea Port
Updated 2024-08-25
2024-7-26 Mother Nature Says Adios to Rube Goldberg U.S. Military Pier in Gaza ell, I told you so. Mother Nature with her not-so-big wind and waves tore apart the multimillion-dollar temporary pier that took the U.S. military two months to be transported from a U.S. Army base on the U.S. East Coast and another two months to construct like Lego blocks. Mother Nature had to intervene not once, not twice, but three times before the U.S. government finally got the message.
The pier idea was reportedly sprung on the U.S. military in President Joe Biden’s January State of the Union address. The risk assessment for success was probably never started, much less completed, or if it was completed, it was probably hidden in a desk drawer as the predictions would not have matched the political demand of “Do something to help get us out of this mess.”https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/26/mother-nature-says-adios-to-rube-goldberg-u-s-military-pier-in-gaza/
2024-05-25 Vessels supporting US-built Gaza aid pier wash away in heavy seas Waves have swept away vessels supporting the United States-built pier installed to transfer aid to Gaza, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said. In a statement on Saturday, CENTCOM noted that during the transportation of humanitarian aid, the US floating dock was disconnected from the small boat tugging it and the vessels broke free from their moorings with two of them now anchored on the beach near the pier.
Part of the dock later drifted towards Israel’s Ashdod shore, while the third and fourth vessels have beached on the coast of Israel near Ashkelon, CENTCOM added. No injuries have been reported so far and efforts to recover the vessels are under way with assistance from the Israeli and US navies. Reporting from Washington DC, Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro said that the Pentagon has stressed that the pier still remained fully functional. “They [the Department of Defense] emphasised that throughout this operation, no US personnel will enter Gaza,” she added. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/25/vessels-supporting-us-built-gaza-aid-pier-washes-away
2024-03-08 Starving Children in Gaza ‘Cannot Wait’ Weeks for US Port, Aid Groups Say Leading humanitarian groups said Friday that starving people in Gaza, including more than a million children, are in need of immediate aid and can’t afford to wait for the U.S. military to construct a port on the enclave’s coast, a project that’s expected to take weeks.
“Children in Gaza cannot wait to eat,” said Jason Lee, country director for Save the Children in the occupied Palestinian territory. “They are already dying from malnutrition and saving their lives is a matter of hours or days—not weeks.”https://www.commondreams.org/news/starving-children-us-port
2024-03-07 Biden Aid Port Plan Rebuked as ‘Pathetic’ PR Effort as Israel Starves Gazans President Joe Biden is expected to announce during his State of the Union address Thursday night that the U.S. military will construct a temporary port on Gaza’s coastline to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance, a plan that critics said is a far cry from what’s needed to end Israel’s forced starvation of the enclave’s population.
It’s expected to take up to two months for large aid packages to begin flowing through the seaport, which a White House official said would be able to “receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters.”
“Wouldn’t it be easier to demand Israel let in aid right now while Palestinian children are literally being starved to death?” “Besides, how are you going to offload the aid from the pier to the land given that Israel shoots at Palestinian boats all the time?” Josh Ruebner, an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University and former policy director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights. continued. “And even if you get the aid to land, how does it get distributed to those most in need? Maybe you should have thought about that before you cut off aid to UNRWA, the only agency able to distribute aid throughout the Gaza Strip.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/state-of-the-union-gaza-port
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