WASHINGTON (AP) — A string of security, logistical and weather problems has battered the plan to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza through a U.S. military-built pier.
Broken apart by strong winds and heavy seas just over a week after it became operational, the project faces criticism that it hasn’t lived up to its initial billing or its $320 million price tag.
U.S. officials say, however, that the steel causeway connected to the beach in Gaza and the floating pier are being repaired and reassembled at a port in southern Israel, then will be reinstalled and working again next week.
While early Pentagon estimates suggested the pier could deliver up to 150 truckloads of aid a day when in full operation, that has yet to happen. Bad weather has hampered progress getting aid into Gaza from the pier, while the Israeli offensive in the southern city of Rafah has made it difficult, if not impossible at times, to get aid into the region by land routes.
- While early Pentagon estimates suggested the pier could deliver up to 150 truckloads of aid a day when in full operation, that has yet to happen. The United States Agency for International Development says it needs a steady flow of 600 trucks a day to ease the struggle for food and bring people back from the brink of famine.
- Aid groups have had mixed reactions — both welcoming any amount of aid for starving Palestinians besieged by the nearly eight-month-old Israel-Hamas war and decrying the pier as a distraction that took pressure off Israel to open more border crossings, which are far more productive. It’s “a side-show,” said Bob Kitchen, a top official of the International Rescue Committee.
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This is all so much pure BIDEN BULL****, this Gaza pier fiasco, and it is so typical and indeed emblematic of the SHALLOW-THINKING and SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS of senile old Joe Biden and EVERYBODY in his administration.
Joe lacks imagination, as does EVERYBODY he has chosen to be his minions, lackeys and servants, and so he and they are unable to project out ahead to see what folly might be out there waiting for him and them, like waves on the Mediterranean sea, as if that were an unusual event.
The facial contortions of Joe’s lackey John “JACKIE BOY” Kirby in this Washington Post video as he tries to explain what happened to Joe’s pier are hilarious and pathetic at the same time as Joe’s lackey John “JACKIE BOY” Kirby was a REAR BADMIRAL in the Navy, and as such you would expect that he would have to know that unlike the pond in New York’s Central Park, the waters of the ocean and seas of the world are not flat as a pancake and have waves, something an E-4 Navy aerographer would have been able to predict far in advance, which shows just how stupid, ignorant and uninformed Joe’s lackey John “JACKIE BOY” Kirby really is, to wit:
Kirby blames ‘Mother Nature’ for pier problems
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby spoke about the Pentagon’s Gaza pier on March 28, after deliveries over the pier were suspended.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/kirby-blames-mother-nature-for-pier-problems/vi-BB1nkUoe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=3c16255a779247799e5b39a6a75a5a86&ei=72