U.S. scrambles to finalize Gaza pier plans as famine looms

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Source: Washington Post

April 6, 2024 at 3:38 p.m. EDT


The Biden administration is scrambling to finalize essential components of its plan to install a floating pier off the Gaza coast for processing food deliveries and other desperately needed humanitarian aid, as famine looms and some U.S. officials doubt whether the military operation is even necessary.

Four Army ships, deployed from southeastern Virginia in mid-March, are due to arrive in the eastern Mediterranean within days. But evolving conditions amid the war have cast new uncertainty over how the effort will play out.

Among the challenges is the precarious security situation in the region, with Iran’s pledge to retaliate for Israel’s deadly strike on a diplomatic compound in Syria raising fears that deployed American personnel face heightened risk. U.S. officials have denied that Washington was involved in the attack, but Tehran maintains that as Israel’s principal supporter, the United States “must be held accountable.”

Another variable is Israel’s recent attack on a World Central Kitchen humanitarian convoy, which killed seven aid workers. While Israel has accepted blame for the strike and said the workers should not have been targeted, the tragedy has complicated U.S. efforts to secure an arrangement for distributing the estimated 2 million meals to be offloaded from the pier daily.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/06/floating-pier-gaza-israel/

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[Aussie105]

1. "As famine looms"?

Deceptive wording, it isn't famine as much as deliberate starvation, and it isn't 'looming', it has been happening for many weeks.

[erodriguez]

3. Famine as defined by the UN

At least 20 per cent of the population in that particular area are facing extreme levels of hunger;
30 per cent of the children in the same place are wasted, or too thin for their height; and
The death – or mortality – rate has doubled, from the average, surpassing two deaths per 10,000 daily for adults and four deaths per 10,000 daily for children.

[Seinan Sensei]

6. Add to that, children's brain-development stunted due to starvation

Aborting a generation's full-potential

[hlthe2b]

2. "Accidentally" fire on our troops constructing that pier, IDF and see where THAT gets you.

That is all...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Like they "accidentally" fired on the U.S.S. Liberty?

Nothing came of that, except for a few funerals in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

[hlthe2b]

5. Very different time and not immediately proximal to repeated attrocities (er, "accidents" )

[IronLionZion]

7. Hamas might be hiding under the pier or the US ships

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you know, just in case. Have to be very thorough about these things. If Hamas is in your head, then DUers reading this are fair game too.

[leanforward]

8. "accidental" is bull scat!

Within hours of hearing about the attack on WCK volunteers, I thought of the USS Liberty. IDF (1967) went to great lengths to wipe out plane ID. You can’t wipe out silhouette image. JFWIW, the survivors on the USS Liberty gather at Arlington on an annual basis (this month). The Israelis are being rabid.
Where will the memorial be for the 1) Israeli citizens, and 2) the aid volunteers?
The Israelis have/are/doing/created a “holocaust”. They need to pull back and start rebuilding for the Palestinians.

Now, our resources and others have to address the growing famine and suffering created by their anger.