The Bizarre Gymnastics Of The Gaza Aid Pier
May 2, 2024
ISRAEL and U.S. IMPERIALISM
So let me get this straight. The U.S. wound up building its "floating pier" a few miles off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, but nobody wi…
The Bizarre Gymnastics Of The Gaza Aid Pier
May 2, 2024
ISRAEL and U.S. IMPERIALISM
So let me get this straight. The U.S. wound up building its "floating pier" a few miles off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, but nobody will be able to ship the aid directly to the pier to get it to Gaza.
Instead, the aid will be delivered to Cyprus via air or sea, and then from Cyprus the aid will be shipped 200 miles to the pier. From there the pallets of aid will be loaded onto smaller U.S. army boats, which will then carry the aid from the pier to a long causeway on Gaza's actual coast.
Those pallets will then be carried from the boats to the shore via the causeway, possibly by British troops or possibly by Israeli troops depending on what source you're reading, and taken into Gaza by IDF troops after careful examination and approval of their contents.
All to deliver some 90 to 150 truckloads worth of aid per day, which is far short of the 500 truckloads the UN says Gaza needs.
And this is all being done because Israel isn't simply letting people drive an adequate amount of aid through the custom-built gates directly into Gaza.
Since Washington doesn't want to exert any pressure on Israel to allow such a self-evident move, this immensely complicated and expensive dance is being performed to deliver a pathetically inadequate amount of aid instead.
Aid that is only necessary because Israel has been destroying Gaza in its genocidal bombing campaign which it has been carrying out with total impunity.
Cool. Very normal and cool.
Reading by Tim Foley.
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