Project aims to get around Israeli politics and bureaucracy that prevents goods reaching the besieged strip
The US military is nearing completion of a $320mn floating pier off Gaza, a complex project to allow seaborne humanitarian aid to a besieged enclave where the most reliable land routes have been disrupted by politics and war. Hundreds of American troops have spent weeks building the structure that aims to allay the dire humanitarian crisis in the strip, with US naval vessels ferrying specialised equipment to a point about 2 miles offshore where the aid ships from Cyprus are supposed to dock.
The rest of the aid, which will have travelled days by ship, will be taken to UN warehouses in southern Gaza, some of which are within a few minutes drive from Israeli territory. The inefficiency and cost of these deliveries mirror that of the pallets of aid airdropped into Gaza in recent weeks, with military transport vessels carrying at most a few truckloads of supplies that are thrown from the back of the planes. Many land in the water and some have even struck and killed Palestinians.
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