US Gaza aid pier to be permanently dismantled after operating for just 20 days – reports
www.theguardian.com
Pier, which has delivered the equivalent of a single day’s pre-war land aid deliveries in two months, will reportedly be removed in a few days’ time
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3314·
    6 个月前

    It was always a literal boondoggle.

    It existed to give the illusion if doing something to help, it was the equivalent to burning the aid money slowly while starving children watched.

    Fuck Biden for doing shit like this and then insisting if he’s not president it has to be trump.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        159·
        6 个月前

        Yes, I thought it was clear that was what I was complaining about

        Fuck Biden for doing shit like this and then insisting if he’s not president it has to be trump

        It takes a special kind of evil to blatantly facilitate a genocide because you know if you’re held accountable even worse shit gets done.

        They’re both pieces of shit.

  • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    6 个月前

    I always said that the aid pier was entirely performative, but that’s even more pathetic than I was expecting

  • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    6 个月前

    What don’t the Palestinians simply die so all the Israelis can build nice homes on the beach already? So selfish.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    6 个月前

    The pier did not deliver aid equal to a single day of land aid. Most of the aid was left to rot because israel did not allow it in. Israel also kept bombing the warehouse with the aid.

    The pier was used to disguise an israeli military operatation as an aid truck and colonize the land. Israel has since built a giant military base near the pier they claim would be used for aid.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        6 个月前

        The UN workers distributing the aid brought in from the pier were bombed by israel. And also the warehouse used to store said aid was bombed by israel.

        Though At the start of the Genocide IDF casualties were at least 20% friendly fire so your statement is also correct. They just fire at anything that moves.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    5·
    6 个月前

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A US military pier, built two months ago as a way to bring sea-borne humanitarian aid into Gaza, is to be permanently dismantled within a few days, according to a new report.

    The Associated Press (AP) reported that the pier, which has had to be moved repeatedly to avoid bad weather, would be reconnected to the Gaza coastline on Wednesday but would operate for just the next few days before being disassembled by the US army and navy.

    The pier scheme, first unveiled by Joe Biden in his State of the Union address in March, was always intended to be a temporary measure to complement the meagre amount of aid being allowed across land crossings by Israel, but US officials told Reuters in June it would last until August or September.

    The eastern Mediterranean off the Gaza coast had been choppier in the summer months than had been expected with stormy weather making it necessary to move the pier in and out of position repeatedly.

    Apart from a day’s operations to clear the backlog of humanitarian assistance on the beach, the WFP has continued to suspend its convoys pending a full security review.

    Over its two months in operation, about 8,800 metric tons of aid has been unloaded off the pier, about 500 truckloads, equivalent to a single day of deliveries before the war began.

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