Officials say the pier will be operational next month for delivery of aid. The mortars landed in an area that will be used as a marshalling yard, they said


Militants fired mortars at Israeli forces in Gaza as they prepared for the arrival of a floating U.S. Army pier, American officials said Thursday, an episode that highlights the risks of building a structure for humanitarian aid.

The 72-feet wide and 270-feet platform is designed to receive shipments of food and other aid transported from Cyprus from Cyprus.

Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon Press Secretary, said construction began Thursday and work was unaffected by the attack.

'When it comes to the temporary pier and the causeway, those are being constructed offshore out at sea and ... essentially nowhere near mortar range so that's not what we're talking about here,' he told reporters.

'You know, we're aware of reports that a small number of mortars land landed in the vicinity of the marshalling yard area for humanitarian assistance that will eventually be the delivery site that this pier will support.'



Aid agencies have already expressed concerns about their safety and worries about how Israeli forces will operate in the area.

Sonali Korde, an official with the U.S. Agency for International Development, said key agreements for security and handling the aid deliveries are still being negotiated.

Those include how Israeli forces will operate in Gaza to ensure that aid workers are not harmed.

'We need to see steps implemented. And the humanitarian community and IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) continue to talk and engage and iterate and improve the system so that everyone feels safe and secure in this very difficult operating environment,' Korde said.

A senior U.S. military official said Thursday the U.S. is on track to begin delivering aid using the new port and pier by early May.

The official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss details not yet made public, said deliveries through the sea route initially will total about 90 trucks a day and could quickly increase to about 150 trucks daily.

The senior official acknowledged, however, that the final installation of the U.S.-built causeway onto the beach at the port will be governed by the security situation, which is assessed daily.

The Israeli Defense Force has a brigade — thousands of soldiers — as well as ships and aircraft dedicated to protecting the deliveries, the official said.




A video from 2020 shows a U.S. Military floating pier for transporting aid off the coast of United Arab Emirates with a similar setup as the one to be constructed offshore from Gaza



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Fuck the pier, let them feed themselves.

Bombing their own aid infrastructure built at no cost to themselves.

Fucking brilliant 60iq thinking, right there. Why do we insist on helping these people? They seem so intent on destroying themselves.

Precisely. If they don't want a pier then let them starve

The FAFO world champions continue their legacy.

Color me surprised

Gaza just needs to self destruct and be done.

I bet the real reason for that pier is going to be an evacuation hub. Biden is going to bring in probably a 100,000 of them to the US as sort of a punishment to Americans for not protesting the war.

More d-Con needed.

We need to stop wasting money on this kind of shit.

They're terrorists doing terrorist things. What did we expect?

POTUS with some balls would be having our shit packed back up and telling them to go fornicate with themselves.

I don't know why we're helping those piece of shit terrorists to begin with.

These are the same folks who's buddies over here are chanting "Death to America"?

Israel should have just flattened it.

Every attack just increases their windfall when the inevitable pallets of cash arrive to “guarantee” security

Fucking this.  Idiots.

We are building a pier?  WTF.  Gaza has a physical border with Egypt.  If Hamas's fellow ROP'rs won't allow supplies, why should we go through the hassle?

Let's get real here.
The pier isn't being built to help deliver aid.
It is being built to facilitate bringing refugees (people taught from birth to be terrorists that hate us) back to the USA.

If your gonna attack that.  Then you can fucking starve.

They can use helos for that.

Cloward Piven calculating the jump to hypersapce.

They done seem "particularly smart"

It takes a particular brand of stupid to punch a heavy weight boxer, publicly and then brag: "look what I did" on social media as said boxer turns around and then scream "he is hurting me" as said heavyweight pounds your face into mush.

Nope.

Helicopter - 75-100

Leased cruise liner - 5K

They carry them to the cruiseliner

And all the protesters here in the States, will cheer their "brave and heroic" efforts.

Seriously, did anyone not see that coming?

To make it easier to unload Chinese NK and Russian weapons as soon as we blink

Egypt doesn't want Palestinians refugees. In fact, nobody wants them.

Just ranging fire

Wipe Gaza from the map. Radiation has its benefits!

Biden is determined and will stop at no cost to ensure that no Hamas terrorist goes hungry while they rape and mutilate American and Isreali hostages.

FJB

The only reason I can think of for this is that there must be some structural elements in that pier they can refab into rockets

eta: only half joking

Don't feed the enemy

I heard work was delayed by 24-hours as all the leadership was busy typing up award docs for Combat Action Ribbons and Combat Action Badges.

Wearing down the helicopters further decreases our crisis response readiness

Lol, we are so fn stupid.

Yes

You guys don't get it... they don't want the aid. They want the videos of starving kids and crying mothers. It's better propaganda...

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Sounds like something Pogues would do

That's.... that's so obviously the point.... that was obviously the point when they first announced it.  It's designed to be attacked so we have justification for getting more deeply involved.

It couldn't be more obvious if they named the damned thing the Maine.

Lol. That’s fine.

FPNI - JFC it's aid dumbasses. Just disassemble it and leave.

Egypt sent a convoy to Gaza. Hamas attacked it, killed a driver and took the food for themselves. Egypt quit sending convoys.

Exactly.