{"id":156969,"date":"2024-05-22T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=156969"},"modified":"2024-05-22T07:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:24:50","slug":"gaza-pier-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=156969","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Pier Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAid Distribution Gaza Style<\/em><\/p>\n

Gaza aid pier mission involving US troops is off to a chaotic start<\/h3>\n

By Geoff Ziezulewicz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: This story was updated May 21 8:26 p.m. E.T. to include further comment from Pentagon and U.N. officials.<\/em><\/p>\n

An effort involving the U.S. military to surge much-needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is off to a chaotic start, with aid trucks being overrun and at least one person feared dead over the weekend, prompting a pause in aid distribution.<\/p>\n

U.S. soldiers and sailors built a floating pier off Gaza and stabbed it into a Gaza beach on Friday with the help of Israeli forces.<\/p>\n

The plan, announced by President Biden in his State of the Union address and using a capability known as Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore, or JLOTS, has been touted as another way to get food to Gazans caught between the Israeli military and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which attacked Israel on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

It involves no U.S. troops on the ground in Gaza, as the U.S. military\u2019s efforts have involved building the massive floating platform and pier that was installed last week.<\/p>\n

But aid trucks stopped trundling off the military\u2019s floating pier on Saturday, and only resumed moving out into Gaza on Tuesday, according to Pentagon officials. The U.N. said it was not aware of any deliveries on Tuesday, however.<\/p>\n

Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Tuesday that the issues have arisen once the aid was loaded onto nongovernmental organization trucks, departed the marshaling area and headed toward distribution warehouses in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, some of those trucks were overtaken by Palestinians, according to U.N. officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military Times<\/a>
\nSome of the trucks? Of the 16 headed to Gaza distribution warehouses on Saturday, five trucks made it with the humanitarian aid intact. The rest were mobbed along the way and arrived stripped, with one person reportedly shot dead. It is unclear who fired the shots, but Hamas has vowed to resist any foreign presence associated with the aid.<\/p>\n

At the risk of public math, that’s about a 70% failure rate, par for Medicated Joe and his String Pullers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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