You took the words out of my mouth.
Answer to your rhetorical question: Duh Internashunal Cumyoonity is stupid enough to believe this. Or maybe just playing dumb.
It can off load and deliver aid to Gaza much faster than some make shift pier could ever do.
Seriously - Ashdod could off load an entire fleet of barges from Cyprus by 10am and have the goods delivered via truck to Gaza in time for dinner without breaking a sweat
This whole plan makes no practical sense.