WASHINGTON (AP) — The pier built by the U.S. military to bring aid to Gaza is being removed due to weather to protect it, and the U.S. is considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out into the population again, several U.S. officials said Friday.
While the military has helped deliver desperately needed food through the pier, the vast majority of it is still sitting in the adjacent storage yard because of the difficulty that agencies have had moving it to areas in Gaza where it is most needed, and that storage area is almost full.
You see the boat in the photos? You see how it’s got a flat bottom, and a ramp that can be lowered? It is literally designed to land on beaches and offload cargo. No Pier needed
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Stalling tactic from day 1. “We are doing humanitarian aid, look!” 🙄
Always was performative
What a massive waste of money.
No, it did it’s purpose: it made headlines.
Couldn’t they have made headlines for less money?
Requiring Netanyahu to let in the trucks on land would have cost no money
You’d think so, but I guess they didn’t.
Smedley Butler made his ‘War is a Racket’ speech in 1933.
Still true.
But then who would get paid to provide all the parts/equipment/etc.?
We (well, not me, but someone) airlifted food into Berlin for almost a year. The pier is theater, meant to look like they’re doing something. If they really wanted to help, they would make sure the supplies actually got to the people that need it, and not leave it on the beach waiting for more fish to evolve legs.
Bodied.
They have plenty of aid on land. The obstacle is land delivery to Gaza due to Israeli attacks, not weather damage to the pier.
The pier has been used to get more than 19.4 million pounds, or 8.6 million kilograms, of food into Gaza but has faced multiple setbacks.
She noted that the secure area onshore is “pretty close to full,” but that the intention is still to get aid into Gaza by all means necessary. She said the U.S. is having discussions with the aid agencies about the distribution of the food.
The big challenge has been that humanitarian convoys have stopped carrying the aid from the pier’s storage area further into Gaza, to get it into civilian hands, because they have come under attack.
This is the key problem that seems to be getting buried everywhere
The big challenge has been that humanitarian convoys have stopped carrying the aid from the pier’s storage area further into Gaza, to get it into civilian hands, because they have come under attack.
If we’re not worrying about the cost of the pier, which I don’t think the Left is at all, then it’s really not about the storms and the maintenance that’s needed to keep it operational.
The problem is Isreal is still functionally blocking the aid from reaching the people.
So why spend so many resources on this pier and put your people at risk, when distribution of the delivered aid is blockaded the same as the land aid.
Love the passive voice there. ‘because they’ve come under attack’. Definitely don’t mention who is bombing humanitarian convoys.
Israel is an asshole state.
A reminder this pier basically did nothing more than generate a headline and political posture so it looks like biden did something for Palestinians. Also a reminder that an attack was launched from their pier where many Palestinians were killed by the israelis.
This counts as biden doing something about the genocide?
The Pier was the red line Biden as looking for
and the U.S. is considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out into the population again, several U.S. officials said Friday.
Honestly, this was a ludicrously cost-ineffective way to transport aid. We built the thing remotely, floated it in, and it was only there for a few weeks before a storm caused damage and grounded multiple ships. We repair it. Then the UN decided that they weren’t going to use it for delivery because one of their warehouses had been hit (just dump it on the beach at Rafah, guys, if you don’t want to use the warehouses, has to be better than not bringing it in).
In retrospect it was never about delivering aid, it was a piece of infrastructure they could use to ‘rescue’ those 4 hostages.
Hundreds of millions of tax dollars spent giving aid and comfort to our enemies, someone should be going to prison for this.
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on creating enemies seeking justice against the U.S.
A lot of your past and present politicians should have been sent to prison for this.
