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SvennoJ on 30 April 2024
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Images show US military building floating pier off Gaza. Pentagon says it will cost $320 million

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/middleeast/gaza-floating-pier-images-aid-intl-hnk/index.html



Construction of the temporary pier began at sea last week and the images show crew from several military vessels building the platform. Separately, a satellite image from Planet Labs shows the pier under construction.

Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said Monday the pier will cost the US about $320 million. That estimate includes all costs associated with the initial construction of the system, known as Joint Logistics Over the Shore, or JLOTS. The cost of operating the pier will likely grow over the next several months. 



A senior military official said last week the US is “on track to begin delivery of humanitarian assistance to Gaza from the sea in early May,” which will begin at the equivalent of 90 trucks per day of aid and then “quickly scale up” to 150 trucks per day once full operational capacity is reached.

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Once established, the World Food Programme (WFP) will support distribution of aid from the pier, the organization said Saturday and USAID will work with the United Nations to distribute the aid once it reaches Gaza.

CNN previously reported that aid will flow from Cyprus via commercial vessels, which will travel about 200 miles to the floating pier anchored miles off the Gaza coast. That aid will then be moved onto smaller Army boats, which can hold about 15 trucks of aid each, that will shuttle to the causeway anchored to the shore.


The construction of the pier is seen in this satellite image from April 27



Up to an extra of 150 trucks a day still won't be enough but is desperately needed. However whether it will actually scale up to 150 trucks remains to be seen. So far Israel has managed to keep the average flow well below half of what is needed and as of April 27th the avg is still barely 200 trucks a day out of 500+ before the current war started.

For now it's still a PR stunt, stalling technique, expensive virtue signalling while still spending magnitudes more on bombing civilians. Tax payer money spend on killing people and on pretending to care about people getting deliberately starved.