US-built floating pier that will allow delivery of humanitarian aid has been anchored in Gaza

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Source: CNN Politics

Updated 4:35 AM EDT, Thu May 16, 2024


CNN — The floating pier that will allow for humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza from the sea has been anchored to a beach in Gaza, according to US Central Command (CENTCOM). Personnel anchored the pier at about 7:40 a.m. local time, “supporting the humanitarian mission to deliver additional humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians,” CENTCOM said in a statement.

The pier had traveled on Wednesday from the port of Ashdod, about 30 miles away, to the Gaza beach. Trucks are expected to begin moving the humanitarian aid ashore in the coming days, while the United Nations will coordinate distribution within the besieged strip, CENTCOM said, adding that no US troops had entered Gaza.

The Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) system consists of two parts: the floating pier where shipments will be offloaded and the causeway to transfer the shipments to the distribution point in Gaza.

On Wednesday, the UK announced that its first shipment of humanitarian aid, including 8,400 temporary shelters, is on its way from Cyprus to Gaza. Cyprus is the staging point for the humanitarian aid that will be shipped to Gaza through the maritime corridor and the pier.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/us-gaza-pier-moving-construction/index.html

[Sky Jewels]

1. Well, that's good, but it would be a lot better if we stopped funding Israel's mass slaughter and starvation

of the people of Gaza. We're contributing to the ethnic cleansing and then throwing a few Band Aids at the carnage.

[SunSeeker]

4. This pier is not a "Band Aid." The PLO already ethnically cleansed Gaza--of Jews and Christians.

It would be a lot better if Hamas stopped stealing aid meant for civilians.

[Sky Jewels]

5. It would be a lot better of the United States stopped enabling Netanyahu and his fascist far right ilk

to brutally level Gaza and murder, maim and starve thousands and thousands of innocent people so Israel can take it over and settle it.

[SunSeeker]

6. It would be even better if Hamas surrendered. The war would end. nt

[Cthulu on call]

2. Bombed

By Isreal on accident in 3 ... 2.....1

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3. Enjoy your brief stay.

Hamas already attacked it once.

Israel was protecting its construction.