The time to "take action" against Hamas and Palis was BEFORE they built their tunnels, fortifications and war machine.
Posted on 05/24/2024 9:05:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S.-built temporary "humanitarian pier" on Gaza's Mediterranean coast — announced by President Joe Biden in his March State of the Union address and completed last week — has quickly turned into a chaotic, dangerous place.
In addition to American troops injured in non-combat accidents, the pier is not moving aid to residents in the enclave at the level hyped by Pentagon officials. Earlier this week, the Department of Defense said that none of the hundreds of metric tons of aid delivered across the pier to Gaza had made it to Gazans.
Even worse, the pier has been the target of attacks by terrorists in Gaza — and now defensive U.S. weapons are being activated to protect the floating aid delivery platform.
U.S. forces are having to directly engage Hamas rockets because the terrorists are trying to destroy the pier.
Now ask yourself...why would they want to destroy the pier that exists only to send food into Gaza?
Makes you think, right? https://t.co/zAzyCRCqvs— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 23, 2024
In April, terrorists launched a mortar attack on the marshaling area where the pier connects to land in the Gaza Strip during its construction. The mortar caused minimal damage and the Washington Post said U.S. servicemembers weren't in harm's way — a generous assessment given American troop's presence immediately adjacent to a war zone filled with terrorists who'd celebrate a successful hit on a U.S. target — but it highlighted the shortsightedness of Biden's plan.
Now that the pier's construction is complete, American C-RAM systems to intercept incoming fire have been set up because Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other Iran-backed terrorists continue to attack humanitarian aid — not that pro-terrorist voices would admit the inconvenient truth that terrorists are the ones disrupting aid delivery.
The U.S. pier is not the only entry point for humanitarian aid being attacked by terrorists. On Thursday, the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza near Rafah was attacked by Hamas for the fourth time this month following attacks on May 5, 9, and 12. The first attack killed four IDF soldiers.
🚨🚨🚨Hamas just fired at Kerem Shalom, the main humanitarian aid crossing into Gaza.
Hamas will do anything to prevent aid from reaching the people of Gaza.— COGAT (@cogatonline) May 23, 2024
At Kerem Shalom, "hundreds of trucks continue to cross into Gaza daily to provide humanitarian aid to Gazans," noted Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) Adjunct Fellow Seth Frantzman of the crossing. "This is important as the IDF expands operations in Rafah and in northern Gaza. The aid provides for Gazan civilians even as Hamas terrorists continue to target the aid crossing," he added.
Joe Truzman, the senior research analyst at FDD's Long War Journal, emphasized the fact that "Hamas attacks on locations that facilitate aid to the people of Gaza continue because international pressure has failed to prevent the terrorists from doing so. Meanwhile, Israeli military operations in the Rafah area have so far failed to stop Hamas from firing on Kerem Shalom," a "crucial hub" for humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza.
I just heard that Israel might have killed a Hamas top commander but will need hours if not days to confirm
BREAKING: The IDF clarifies: “It will take days or hours to know if the senior was indeed eliminated.”
According to foreign sources, “this is one of the five remaining senior members of the Hamas movement.”
Neocons: “ We need to be involved in this game. How do we turn an ocean, and borders with Israel, Gaza, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon into OUR borders? I know - let’s build and operate a pier.”
Yeah, everybody remembers back in 45. Our Seabees building that logistics ramp for the Japanese on the backside of Okinawa under relentless Japanese attack. Those brave men. I never understood why they built it for the enemy, but I guess someone really smart knows the reason. Probably some kid from Harvard.
I wish the college morons who oppose Israel would realize this. It’s Hamas the Palis need to fear most.
And everybody remembers those dangerous humanitarian relief flights we flew into Hanoi between the B-52 waves.
Do we need to kill them all so we can safely bring them food?
Frog meet the scorpion.
I think that news is why US/UN peeps are loudly calling for IDF to withdraw. Trying to preserve those targets as the places to hid get less and less..
Why would the “Humanitarian Aid Pier” be different from the other “Humanitarian Aid” corridors?
It is just a more expensive way to provide supplies to Hamas.
“Do we need to kill them all so we can safely bring them food?”
Absolutely! Much safer when all hostile entities are dead. As a bonus, you need less food, and nobody there to complain about the food/freshness.
Extra bonus points if you can land an aid pallet on top of someone.
(Spoiler alert, this already happened. The person ran to try and catch a pallet of aid)
Just another degradation of JLOTS that support the US Armed Forces.
If only there was a military force in the area that could stop hamas terrorism.
OH WAIT!!!
Can anyone say the word “boondoggle”? Can anyone here define what a “boondoggle” is?
The time to "take action" against Hamas and Palis was BEFORE they built their tunnels, fortifications and war machine.
HA! Biden admins are fools...
Just tell them they win a prize if they catch the pallet with their head.
US is taking action against Hamas?
Where is the “Cease Fire Now!” crowd?
“How are we going to bring all those Gazans here if they destroy the pier?”
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