Why Did The US Spend $320 Million On A Rube Goldberg Pier For Gaza? Authored by Ann Wright via CommonDreams.org, Instead of U.S. President Joe Biden marking a red line in the sand demanding that Israel allow aid into Gaza via ground transportation, his inept diplomatic team sent out a plea for help to the U.S. military. While in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves for 29 years, I thought I had seen some pretty stupid things the military was told by politicians to do. It always...
The U.S. military has completed the construction of a hulking metal pier that is expected to be jabbed into a beach in northern Gaza in the coming days, officials said. Completing the massive makeshift structure — approximately 1,500-ft long or the length of five U.S. football fields — is the first step in the Biden administration's two-month-long, $320 million gamble to open a sea route to get humanitarian aid through the eastern Mediterranean and into Gaza, where Israel continues to wage war...
The United States military has completed the construction of the Gaza aid pier. However, due to weather conditions, it is currently unsafe to relocate the two-part facility, Deputy Pentagon Press Secr
The United States Department of Defense has announced that the construction work on a floating pier for humanitarian aid to Gaza has been completed, but the date of its deployment to a usable location has not yet been determined. Voice of America reported on Tuesday, May 7th, citing the US Department of Defense, that the […]
Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip have rolled across a newly built U.S. floating pier into the besieged enclave for the first time
United States National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby mentioned on Friday that there is a "small component of US military personnel on the pier" in Gaza.Spe
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has completed construction of its Gaza aid pier, but weather conditions mean it is currently unsafe to move the two-part facility into place, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The pier -- which the U.S. military started building last month and which will cost at least $320 million -- is aimed at boosting deliveries of desperately needed humanitarian assistance to Gaza, which has been ravaged by seven months of Israeli operations against Hamas.
Aid agencies poised to receive supplies and distribute to territory where people face imminent starvationThe US military has said the installation of a floating pier for the delivery of humanitarian aid off Gaza has been completed, with officials ready to begin ferrying supplies into the territory, where much of the population faces imminent starvation owing to the continuing Israel-Hamas war.Ordered two months ago by the president, Joe Biden, the US military transported the system overnight...
First Images Of American Taxpayers' $350 Million Completed Gaza Pier The Pentagon is 'proud' and so is the Biden administration. But the US taxpayer? "Today we began delivery of aid from the temporary pier on to the beach of Gaza for further distribution to the people by our partners," US Central Command announced Friday. "This unique logistics capability facilitates the delivery of lifesaving humanitarian aid enabling a shared service for the international community to use to...
It marks the opening of a new route for humanitarian aid to reach the stricken Gaza Strip.
A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know if the new route will work until a steady stream of deliveries begins reaching starving Palestinians. The trucks that will roll off the pier project installed Thursday will face intensified fighting, Hamas threats to target any foreign forces and uncertainty about whether the Israeli military will ensure that aid convoys have access and safety from attack by Israeli forces. TEMPORARY FLOATING PIER FOR...
A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know if the new route will work until a steady stream of deliveries begins reaching starving Palestinians