The pier that the US military built to rush humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has largely failed, aid organisations say, and will probably be abandoned soon.
The temporary pier that the US military built on short notice to rush humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has largely failed in its mission, aid organisations say, and will probably end operations weeks earlier than originally expected.
The Biden administration initially predicted that it would be September before surging seas would make the pier inoperable. Military officials are now warning aid organisations that the project could be dismantled as early as next month, a looming deadline that officials say they hope will pressure Israel to open more ground routes.
The pier “is not working, at least not for Palestinians”, Stephen Semler, a co-founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute, wrote in an essay for the Quincy Institute think tank. Semler argued that the pier had succeeded only in providing “humanitarian cover” for the Biden administration’s policy of supporting Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
On the days that the pier has been in working order, it enabled the delivery of thousands of tonnes of aid to Gaza, officials say. “This irresponsible and expensive experiment defies all logic except the obvious political explanation: to appease the president’s far-left flank,” Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee, said earlier this month.
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