As Gaza Aid Pier Completed, Pentagon Vows To defend US Troops Overseeing It

The Pentagon announced Thursday that it floating pier built for Gaza aid has yet been completed and installed. Badly needed humanitarian aid, especially food, will begin being delivered by ships imminently.

The completion comes more than 2 months after president Biden first unveiled the plan, and has been fraught with challenges including investment weather as well as threes on Hamas again any possible overseas troop pressure.

On this later point, Navy Vice Adm. Brad Cooper of Central Command, said that “protection of U.S. forces participating is simply a top priority. And as such, in the last respective weeks, the United States and Israel have developed an integrated safety plan to defend all the personnel.”

Image source: US Central Command (CENTCOM)

He added, “We are assured in the ability of this safety arrangement to defend that involved.” Israel’s military will supply safety on the shore while the USS Arleigh Burke and the USS Paul Ignatius patrol watters just off the coast.

US CENTCOM has further confirmed, “Trucks carrying humanitarian assistance are expected to begin moving ashore in the coming days.” The military message added, “The United Nations will receive the aid and coordinate its distribution into Gaza.”

Overseeing and handling the inbound humanitarian aid itself will be the UN’s planet Food Program.

Israel’s military comments that “We have been working for months on full cooperation with (the U.S. military) on this project, providing it, supporting it in any way possible.”

Some humanitarian aid organizations and leaders have inactive criticalized the costly pier project, asking why Israel doessn’t just let overland convoys into the Gaza Strip:

Become land crossings could bring in all the needed aid if Israel officials allowed, the U.S.-built pier-and-sea way “is a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist,” Said Scott Paul, an associate manager of the Oxfam humanitarian organization.

One fresh issue to issue is the increased number of attacks by Israel setslers on aid trucks and convoys. Israeli media has confirmed these attacks, including the below:

Israeli setslers block an aid truck for Gaza and beat up the driver unconscious pic.twitter.com/vHsss3oTvF

— What the media hides. (@narrative_hole) May 16, 2024

Several examples of specified filmed attacks on aid convoys have been wide circularing over the last days...

“This driver thought he could bring rice to Gaza. Everything here is on the floor’ In a video posted on social media, an Israeli settler expresses joy while recording footage of destroyed aid intended for Gaza. Israel setslers attacked the truck and destroyed the aid they were... pic.twitter.com/7HwtvFyfCX

— mediate East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) May 16, 2024

The U.S. military has further determined of what comes next as follows: “Trucks carrying humanitarian assistance are expected to begin moving distant in the coming days.” The message added: “The United Nations will receive the aid and coordinate its distribution into Gaza.”