US Gaza aid pier to be permanently dismantled after operating for just 20 days – reports | The Guardian
US Gaza aid pier to be permanently dismantled after operating for just 20 days – reports | The Guardian
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
A quarter of a billion well spent /S
74Holy shit it was that expensive? Some defense contractor got a new yacht, I'm sure
49Years ago I attended a friend's sister's wedding who was marrying the son of a defense contractor from Houston in Vegas. This motherfucker rented out multiple conference rooms at Paris for the ceremony and reception, open bar and meal for hundreds of people, rented two-story penthouse suites at MGM for the wedding party and flew all the family out to be there. He had to have blown hundreds of thousands on this ceremony that was over in half a day. That's where a majority of our taxes go, to rich parasites like this. Think of every problem that the federal government just throws money at and you'll find people like this. This is why we pay so much yet little ever gets accomplished. We're all too busy squabbling with each other while they fleece us.
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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.
32If it's not Biden, it'll be Trump. That's the reality we're facing
38Yes, 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.
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I always said that the aid pier was entirely performative, but that's even more pathetic than I was expecting
24What gets me every time they talk about this pier... The ships in the photos are amphibians landing ships designed with ramps and flat bottoms so they can unload on the beach without a pier. The pier is totally unnecessary in this scenario
22The amphibious ships are small and can't carry a lot. The proposed idea made a lot of sense in that it would allow larger ships to be used so less trips and less fuel per ton of aid, but the political will was just never there to keep it running or make sure it was planned thoroughly enough.
Absolutely shameful, but on the plus side military logistics students just got another case study.
6Yeah, but then you're on a beach, so you need vehicles that can drive on a beach, possibly in wet sand, possibly still half in the water. Unless you're actually doing amphibious assault in enemy territory building a pier is a good idea as it makes unloading vehicles/cargo much easier and broadens the type of boats you can use for transport.
4100% agreed. If they had been serious about this whole we're going to bring supplies in from the sea. Day 1 through 30 should have been amphibious vehicles. Day 30 through 60 should have been pier-based vehicles, and 60 plus should be showing massive high throughput. With UN peacekeepers at some point to prevent bombing of the aid caravans.
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Those are the little boats that take things from the pier to the shore. The boats that take things over the ocean to the pier are not landing vessels. They are large ships and only have a cargo ramp, which requires a pier to unload. I looked at hundreds of pictures before writing this and didn't see one large ship with beach landing capabilities. The largest landing ship I saw was the USAV Matamoros, Runnymede-class ship with a capacity of 20 stacked containers, with no ability to load them onto trucks. It needs a pier to load trucks. Could maybe carry eight trucks already loaded, which is nothing. It operates regionally, not transoceanic.
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Wasn't it just a cover for that rescue mission?
13“Rescue mission”? You mean that one where they disguised US / Israeli military as humanitarian aid to get into a refugee camp to slaughter 274 innocent people?
9I get your point but it is disingenuous to ignore the fact that it was a rescue mission.
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Not that anything I say makes one god damn bit of difference, but I TOLD YOU SO
10What don't the Palestinians simply die so all the Israelis can build nice homes on the beach already? So selfish.
9The 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.
8Israel kept bombing their own military operation?
2Just like they kill their own who have been taken hostage.
7The 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.
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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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-1Isreal borders gaza on two sides. Why would they need to land troops?
9Yeah, I misremembered the extraction operation where they took out hostages using the pier: https://apnews.com/article/pier-humanitarian-aid-gaza-israel-un-2465291ca9308f9d97e3cc51a8cab6c7
And as a result I may have been uncharitable in my assessment.
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