Gaza humanitarian aid port likely to take approximately two months, 1,000 US troops to build: Pentagon

Fox News ^ | March 9, 2024 | Sarah Rumpf-Whitten

[McGruff]

The U.S. military port that is intended to provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza is expected to take up to two months to construct and requires over 1,000 U.S. servicemembers to complete, the Pentagon said.

In a press conference on Friday, Press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters that that port would take at least 1,000 U.S. forces.

"We anticipate that it'll take over 1,000 U.S. forces to participate in building this capability," Ryder said.

"As far as time frame, several weeks, likely up to 60 days in order to deploy the forces and construct the causeway and the pier," he said.

[Jonty30]

Kubaki theatre.
Nobody will ask where the aid goes to.

[MinorityRepublican]

Seems dangerous. It’s a war zone.

[Organic Panic]

The chomo in chief will announce the US military will build a causeway between China and Taiwan next.

[McGruff]

This could end up like the Afghan airport evacuation.

[mowowie]

Who the F voted for this?
Did American citizens have a say in this?

[cgbg]

Not to worry—the Pentagon has got this.

Lol.

[Manic_Episode]

Is Israel okay with all this?

[mowowie]

Who or what exactly decided this?
There should be a national outrage.

[Nervous Tick]

>> As far as time frame, several weeks, likely up to 60 days

Great, so now Israel knows how long they have to wipe Hamas off the face of the earth! Such information can be useful.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Is Israel okay with all this?

My guess is “hell no!” but they’re good at realpolitik and with G-D’s help they will deal with it.

[MinorityRepublican]

Not to worry—the Pentagon has got this.

Yeah right. They couldn't even evacuate from Afghanistan properly.

[Nervous Tick]

>> There should be a national outrage.

Half of us agree and we’re already beyond outraged!

[McGruff]

Shades of Afghanistan debacle.

[Mark17]

Seems dangerous. It’s a war zone.

I wonder how many American troops will be killed, Beirut style?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Come on! Don’t they have any existing ports? This is ludicrous.

We will leave abandon it in a few months and it will be a munitions depot.

And/or we will take 300,000 Pali “refugees” from there to the USA.

This stinks to high heaven.

[tired&retired]

I read an article earlier today where 5 Palestinians were killed and many were injured by aid dropped from US planes!

[MinorityRepublican]

Joe Biden doesn’t care. He just wants to win Michigan.

[tired&retired]

“Officials from Gaza’s Hamas-run Ministry of Health and an eyewitness told CBS News that five people were killed Friday by an aid airdrop package when at least one parachute failed to properly deploy and a parcel fell on them. The people were in the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, and the incident occurred at around 11:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. Eastern)

[magooey]

This is odd as Israeli spokesmen make it clear that there is no limit to the amount of aid that can be transferred into Gaza through the crossings from Israel. Maybe the problem is that the aid coming through these crossings are checked by Israel, and the purpose of a new alternate route is to resupply military equipment to Hamas.