President Joe Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza earlier this year even as some staffers for the US Agency for International Development (USAid) expressed concerns that the effort would be difficult to pull off and undercut the effort to persuade Israel to open “more efficient” land crossings, according to a USAid inspector general report.
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But the $230m military-run project known as the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore system, or JLOTS, would operate for only about 20 days. Aid groups pulled out of the project by July, ending a mission plagued by repeated weather and security problems that limited how much food and other emergency supplies could get to starving Palestinians.
I forget - did any of the pier aid actually get delivered, or was it all piled up under Israeli ‘security’ concerns and never distributed?
What a fucking fiasco.
From memory there was at least one delivery but yeah, it was largely a failure. Well, it was a failure if the objective was to get aid through to Gaza at least.
I think it was used once by those poor WCK volunteers that went to distribute food, but unfortunately in the eyes of the IDF they really looked like Hamas so they had to die