US preparing to temporarily remove Gaza pier due to sea conditions, official says
US preparing to temporarily remove Gaza pier due to sea conditions, official says
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So they will open additional crossings? Right? Right...?
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Best I can do is crush more starving people by dropping aid from the sky.
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Didn't it get smashed up a few weeks ago?
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It's literally in the article:
...the U.S. announced on May 28 that it had suspended operations so repairs could be made.
The United Nations said on Friday it had still not resumed transportation of aid from the pier to U.N. World Food Programme warehouses.
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Bold of you to assume I read the article.
I mean, I did, but clearly that bit didn't stick....
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They repaired it back then.
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Fixed it for a little while so they could use it as as military outpost for the hostage rescue-massacare. Bonus war crime points for hiding IDF soldiers in aid trucks for the ambushes.
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It should be noted that the evidence there is that a helicopter involved in the raid took off from a beach near the pier. So slim to none. And it doesn't even make sense, how would the pier be useful for a military operation?
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Yeah...that tracks. Ffs.
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Who still believes the pier was meant to be anything but an expensive public relations distraction at best.
Do not forget that the US also used this pier to station 1000 military personnel. So in my eyes this was just a pretext to deploy those people on the ground.
The pier is gonna be real useful to ship away the displaced
Or would be if it worked.
I have to find it but I read something that mentioned that the pier was to be used to displace Palestinians in the future.
Yep here it is:
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/gaza-resistance-sources-say-fear-is-rising-u-s-pier-will-be-used-for-forced-displacement-of-palestinians/
I do. They are delivering hundreds of tons of aid, even if netanyahu and the IDF are being real pieces of s*** about letting it get delivered.
It helps biden's image, but to call it a "public relations distraction at best" is absurdly narrow-minded and dismissive.
Is this the same Biden who told us last October that he saw photos of beheaded babies? The same government that continues to evade calling this what it is: a genocide? The same one that continues providing the materiel for this genocide, which could not continue without it? Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid.
The US could force open Southern Gaza borders any time he wanted to using diplomacy alone. The border where Israeli citizens are preventing and destroying aid. The border where aid shipments have arrived for years and where there is an efficient system for delivery.
Building a temporary pier is not a serious attempt to deliver aid. Nor was airdropping big boxes, at least one of which killed someone. They are PR and a cover for small-scale military entry and egress.
Are they? AFAIK the pier was a failure as soon as it started operating, and if the IDF isn't letting aid get delivered then what was even the point?