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.
And idiots in this country and others want Israel to stop beating up on HAMAS. NO TWO STATE SOLUTION. HAMAS NEEDS TO BE OBLITERATED. PERIOD.
The whole pier thing was stupid to begin with. It’s no surprise that HAMAS is attacking it. Our people are in harm’s way only to be used by HAMAS for target practice.
Now ask yourself...why would they want to destroy the pier that exists only to send food into Gaza?
and the answer is...................................
Helping Hamas is not remotely “neocon”.
Wait what?
I thought Israel was “the problem”.
Israel needs to go to Quatar and finish the job!
Seems like a very “Holey” article.
When including April have attacks been made on any part of the operation where US troops are present? Time(s) and weapons involved?
Are those C-RAM systems onshore being manned by US troops or by Israeli troops?
Are the injuries mentioned the ones from a recent forklift accident?
Who has (received) the initial aid deliveries?
Now, don’t get me wrong. What with all the multiple transfers involved, this is a quite inefficient way to deliver supplies in what appears to be mainly a political stunt. And there is certainly a ton of risk. Easily challenged or disingenuous statements only detract from that.
Unfortunately this is true. When pe6whi have nothing left to live for are radicalized with a heaven for killing and dying in the name of their God, it’s tough to change their minds and the only solution is to blow their heads off.
Just as we had to in Japan with their “code of Bushito”!
pe6whi have never had anything to live for.
Hahaha(typo)
Sometimes I catch em
Most times I don’t!🤣😂
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