US humanitarian aid pier off Gaza to halt shipments for 3rd time in a month

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Source: ABC News

June 14, 2024, 10:45 AM


The U.S. military is planning to suspend operations of its pier off Gaza on Friday, temporarily moving the floating structure to an Israeli port to ride out high seas and rough waves expected to hit the region in coming days, according to an official familiar with the plans.

It's the third time in a month that the structure halted operations due to weather and is the latest setback for the ambitious $230 million humanitarian project involving 1,000 US troops. "We are doing everything we can to make it work," the official said.

Complicating the matter is that humanitarian aid that has been transported ashore via the pier is being held at a nearby facility after the U.N. suspended deliveries last week due to security concerns. The U.N. said Friday it does not have a timeline for when distribution might resume.

The difficulties come as time is running out for the U.S. to make use of the temporary pier, which was initially slated as a 90-day project that would likely lose its ability to transit aid at the end of August when heightened sea levels and more frequent storms would force military officials to take it down.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-humanitarian-aid-pier-off-gaza-become-inoperable/story?id=111058739

[hueymahl]

1. What a cluster

Good intentions, absolutely terrible execution. Beginning to think something is rotten in our military.

[Igel]

2. No, they used a standard design.

They knew it was good for up to 3' waves. That's the design specs.

Designing something better would have taken a long time and it was as much a political as a humanitarian need to quickly get something in place--the CiC says "weeks", you'd better get moving, you don't have more than 2-3 months. So they used off-the-shelf parts, knowing their limitations and that the Mediterranean didn't always cooperate with those limitations.

I'm sure that the "dumbf**k" that objected to the timeline as unreasonable given the environment--as any non-dolt should have, speaking truth to power and all that--is the same "dumbf**k" whose being dragged through an open-hearth furnace for following orders, with time-outs in a soaking pit. To be honest, I rather suspect it was an aide that was doing the order-following and "not following the science"--and is probably saying, "Nobody could have anticipated this!"