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.

  • @mlg
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    616 days ago

    Yeah man I’m sure Hamas is going to weaponize…

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    bottled water, pre-packaged food, and wheat.

    Israel is full blocking aid trucks which they can easily inspect. Even the few they were originally letting through were attacked to scare off NGOs and the UN. Their demand to search the packages is just a ruse they can use to halt the flow.

    There is a ridiculously low chance Hamas has been successful in smuggling anything related to weapons for the past 6 months via the aid.

    Meanwhile the remaining Gazans are starving to death because Israel has already decided all Palestinians are Hamas and must be eradicated from the area.

    The USA could at anytime use its insane MIC leverage to force Israel to let aid in, but they won’t because they see Israel as a prime ally.

    • capital
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      215 days ago

      No, that stuff they’ll take and sell to citizens.

    • @JustZ
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      -816 days ago

      They haven’t. And that aid is flowing. Aid is going up not down, except for at one port of entry, shut down because it’s a warzone. I don’t know, how about tell us where Hamas is hiding and who their accomplices are, and then everyone who isn’t an insane religious zealot bent on killing Jews because they don’t like the operating hours at various piles of rocks, go about their days?

      The famine has been “imminent” since November and it hasn’t happened. Because aid has been flowing since like day 5.

    • @JustZ
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      -916 days ago

      Israel is a prime ally and essential to long term stability in the middle east.

      The people in the IDF responsible for the flour massacre and the world kitchen truck are gone. Aid is flowing. And it’s going to rain in from America’s port, bet, mf.