US military pier starts moving towards Gaza
US military pier starts moving towards Gaza
The U.S. military has started moving a pier towards the Gaza coast, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, one of the last steps before the launch of a maritime port promised by President Joe Biden to speed the flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
The U.S. military opted to pre-assemble the maritime pier at Israeli port of Ashdod earlier this month due to weather conditions at the Gaza site where it will now be installed.
Officials hope the pier can be anchored to the coast of Gaza and aid can start flowing in the coming days.
"Earlier today, components of the temporary pier ... along with military vessels involved in its construction, began moving from the Port of Ashdod towards Gaza, where it will be anchored to the beach to assist in the delivery of international humanitarian aid," a U.S. official said.
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Wtf is even the fucking point? If we're gonna give Israel the weapons to genocide them with one hand why even bother with this fake bullshit "aid" with the other hand? Is anyone fooled by this?
International politics is complicated. Would you actually rather them just let civilians starve to death as well?
That is what they are already doing by allowing Israel to keep the border crossings closed.
This pier is as useless as letting the civilians starve to death because none of that aid will reach them because Israel only agreed to the port if they also get to dictate what goes through.
ie they built a new a closed on arrival marine aid route that will likely get bombed by the IDF anyway.
Bombing a US controlled port would be pretty close to a declaration of war against the US. Israel isn't that dumb.
The USS Liberty: "Am I a joke to you?!"
Wouldn't be the first time. Hell, wouldn't be the first time they murdered Americans this genocide either.
Look man, the problem with arguing with these people is that they are hard stuck. Biden could tell us exactly what the issue is, take his entire staff to Gaza, put on an apron, and begin filling bowls with soup, and people will be like, "HE ISN'T GRABBING A GUN AND FIGHTING BACK"
It'd be funny if it wasn't so tiring and sad.
We are. By letting the idf control what goes through the port, it will do nothing to help. As such we are letting them starve to death and remain facilitation genocide.
It so they can export the natural gas they are going to steal from Gaza
I play both sides, that way I always come out on top.
As much as I despise lemmy.ml, you passed the ocular patdown. Have an upvote
There's a nonzero chance Israel bombs the pier "accidentally" and then maybe we'll see some shit.
They settled for a few mil and called it a day
Yeah, this time the pier has been telegraphed for months. No fog of war bullshit. If they hit it I fully expect a self defense response.
If they hit the pier I hope we drop a MOAB on the IDF HQ. Itd be funny.
Were shoot our own sometimes too. Doesn’t mean it was deliberate.
I'm well aware. But there's absolutely no way Israel doesn't I ow exactly where the pier is or that the US will be there, so if anything happens it is not an accident.