UK forces may be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: BBC

5 hours ago


British troops could be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route, the BBC has learned. The US has said no American forces would go ashore and an unnamed "third party" would drive trucks along a floating causeway onto the beach.

The UK is understood to be considering tasking British troops with this when the aid corridor opens next month. Whitehall sources said no decision had been made and the issue had not yet crossed the prime minister's desk. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Israeli army declined to comment.

Britain has been closely involved in planning the sea-borne aid operation and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK continued to take "a leading role in the delivery of support in coordination with the US and other international allies".

The possible role for British forces - known as "wet boots" by military planners - would see them drive trucks off landing craft onto the temporary causeway and deliver aid to a secure distribution area ashore.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68909511

[Ray Bruns]

1. Bad Idea.

[Brenda]

3. Agree, troops on the ground even if "humanitarian" is escalation. nt

[LiberalArkie]

2. I think the U.S. is afraid that Israel will bomb the crap out of them like it did the U.S.S. Liberty.

We may have always been a friend to Israel, but it has not been the other way around.

[JoseBalow]

4. "... a secure distribution area ashore."

Who is going to "secure" this area?

[orangecrush]

5. A U.S. aircraft carrier

And it's buddies

Enough is enough.

[JoseBalow]

6. Is that the plan?

I hadn't heard about that.

[orangecrush]

7. Not that I'm aware of

It's just a suggestion.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. I doubt if an aircraft carrier an secure a warehouse area on land.

Securing an area sounds like a job for infantry.

Boots, rifles, body bags.

It won't be pretty.