Mortar rounds were fired at Israeli forces making preparations for a US-built pier in Gaza on Wednesday, highlighting the danger of the project to the US troops that are involved.
US officials blamed the attack on “Gaza-based militants” and said no American equipment was damaged. The attack came as US forces started construction of the pier off the coast of Gaza.
“I can confirm that US military vessels, to include the USNS Benavidez, have begun to construct the initial stages of the temporary pier and causeway at sea,” Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Thursday.
Ryder said that the mortar attack targeted a “marshaling area” for the pier. “We’re aware of reports that a small number of mortars landed in the vicinity of the marshalling yard area for humanitarian assistance that will eventually be the delivery site that this pier will support,” he said.
US officials insist the US military personnel will stay hundreds of meters offshore, but that puts them easily in range of Hamas rockets. A successful attack on US troops could lead to a major escalation of US involvement in the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
The US says the idea of the pier is to facilitate the delivery of more humanitarian aid into Gaza. President Biden ordered the drastic measure instead of pressuring Israel to open more land crossings into Gaza, which is the most efficient way to deliver aid. Israel will inspect aid shipments in Cyprus before they head to Gaza but will also require another inspection once they reach the shore.
The pier is expected to be able to bring in about 90 aid trucks per day, with the potential for 150. Aid officials have said they need over 500 trucks per day to enter the Strip. According to Reuters, the UN said the average this month has been 200 despite Israeli claims that significantly more aid was being allowed in.
Double inspection paranoia to avoid a Food War…?!
Double inspections slow everything down, which will the reduce the amount of aid. Double inspections also give the Israelis two chances to find supposed duel use item to remove from the shipments.
We can’t have the residents of Gaza actually getting aid.
Plus the shrinkage that will occur.
How much food is going to waste in trucks unable to deliver that much needed food?
It leaves normal people speechless.
Let them eat rotten food, and they will if available.
and they can’t even get that.
The “shrinkage” that I was referring to was also the pilfering/theft by the Israeli inspectors.
It had never crossed my mind, but how could it be otherwise?
Palestine is on double secret probation.
to avoid weapons shipments to Hamas.Very simple.
You are being very simple.
It’s genocide, the only thing Israel wants to avoid are survivors.
Jake, you can’t be normal. No matter what you are told, by the Zionists, the poor victims, you swallow it, hook, line, and sinker.
There’s a good book jake should read and then look into a mirror — “Hitler’s Willing Executioners”.
I read it many years ago and MG it is so current and worth reading again.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said Monday that a truck loaded with aid was turned back because it had scissors used in children’s medical kits.
“Medical scissors are now added to a long list of banned items the Israeli Authorities classify as ‘for dual use,'” Lazzarini claimed in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
“The list includes basic and lifesaving items: from anesthetics, solar lights, oxygen cylinders and ventilators, to water cleaning tablets, cancer medicines and maternity kits.”
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-03-12-24/h_59f5cf814d34294b52b55f07882f75ff
A new low.
Isreal as the occupying power is responsible for housing, feeding , and protecting the population of Gaza.
The 500 trucks per day of food should be coming from Tel Aviv.
Nope, Israel is not the occupying power. 1. Israel does not control large tracks of Gaza and 2. Hamas is still providing organized armed resistance. At this point in war is Israel Hamas is responsible for the civilians in Gaza. And as seen by the recent attack on the building of the pier, Hamas does not care.
“There is also the popular trope that Israel benevolently ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005 only to come under repeated attack by Hamas. But while Israel withdrew military forces and settlers from Gaza, it has remained an Occupying Power by virtue of its continued control of the strip. Nothing and nobody go into or out of Gaza without Israel’s permission. Gaza remains, as it was described in 2004 by Head of Israel’s National Security Council Giora Eiland, “a huge concentration camp.”
The Israelis run the open air concentration camp. They build the 24 feet high fence and provided the guards to control the air, sea and land borders. They blocked any commerce, even calculating the food needed to provide the minimum of calories and not more. Inmates could leave the prison only with permission to till their small fields outside the fence and had very limited fishing rights. There is much more. The Israelis were brutal prison guards.
Hamas, the Palestinians have lots of reasons to hate the Israelis, they would not be human if they did not hate them. Hamas fighters are freedom fighters, who else protects them and their families. It is pay back time, the Israelis are brutal monsters and the victims are fighting back.
See how the settlers supported by the IDF sc*um treat WB Palestinians. How many children, Palestinians have they killed since Oct. ?
He already knows all that and was hoping for someone to believe him.
He is a hopeless case.
WAHWAHWAH
You keep trying to deny that the ICJ, the UNSC, and dozens of other international organizations define Israel as being the occupying power.
Yep – it is the occupying power in the legal definition of the term. Don’t have to have a military unit on every acre of every track (sic) either.,
So essentially the same as at the land entrance. The only groups getting anything out of this deal are the warehouses and Crete and the shipping company.
The pier is obviously an anti-Palestinian ploy. The US and Israel are devious bastards with nothing but (more) genocidal intent up their sleeves. Can someone beam them to another galaxy…please?
Sorry. No. Only God can. And He “chose” them over us.
It’s intended for expediting the evacuation of the Gaza remnant to distant parts yet undetermined.
Maybe they have the moon in mind?
Maybe Ukraine? Even before the invasion its population had collapsed, between emigration and the suppressed birth rate it was already 40% lower than during Soviet times. Now another 40% of the remainder are estimated to have left or been killed in battle. Rather than the normal pyramid with many young at the bottom and few elderly at the top a graph of their population is a diamond shape.
But as history is full of ironic dispositions, it will likely be Israelis who get evacuated.
And if they go to Ukraine, which in the days of the Czars was ‘The Pale’, there will be Nazis there for them to fight already.
Maybe this time the US puts out the welcome mat, there is lots of land in the US, Montana and Wyoming need more settlers, the NYs on the WB would be welcome. /s
Is Ireland a place of high ethical morality?
If they’d only keep more foreigners out.
The pier is for shipping Palestinians out. Those still after the planned offensive.
That’s absurd… There won’t be any Palestinians left to ship out.
And Israel knows they might come back.
I think Israel is learning from Russia in Ukraine. 🤷🏽♂️
How little information is available on the condition of bodies in mass graves found at hospitals. It is amazing. It is rather fortunate that there is a whole ecosystem of alternative media.
Just read on Caitlin Johnstone’s page that many of the bodies, including those of children, show signs of torture and some were apparently buried alive.
no doubt dissenters killed by Hamas
What a wonderful distraction from sad reality! Building a pier at great effort and expense, when all that’s needed is to open the gates to Gaza on the land side and allow trucks to carry in food, medicine, and other relief supplies.
But Israel can’t let that happen, so the US feigns sympathy by building a pier on the sea side. Where is Mickey Rooney when we need him? Hey, gang, let’s put on a show! It’ll be just grand!
And George Carlin.
If they actually wanted to to break the blockade they would put Marines in the driver’s seat of those aid trucks. See if the oh-so-brave killers in the IDF will try to stop people who can shoot back.
I hope the pier has a carousel to add to the surrealism and insanity of the whole idea.
… and an Amelek theme park.
So you don’t want the option of bring in supplies via the sea? You want to depend on the political will of Israel and Egypt, both which have their reasons to limit shipments into Gaza.
The political will needed is in Washington. One call and the aid goes in.
Is aid flowing in or are Gazans flowing out that pier?
I thought Israel was our good friend and greatest ally. We shouldn’t need the sea route option. Just open the friggin’ gates.
Why would the Israelis even allow the pier when all they have to do is to open the gates for the trucks?
The pier is nothing but sadistic BS propaganda, only sadistic pathological people could come up with. Nothing will ever get to Gaza from the pier, why should it?
You talking about sadistic propaganda and that’s all you do here. 🤣
You funny.
No – that’s not what it’s for. But you know that.
The true intentions of the pier is so they can mass migrate out the Palestinians to camps not to bring in aid. It’s the final chapter of the genocide and we are going to build it
And how do you know that?
Because that is what only pathological sadistic criminals in Tel Aviv and Washington can come up with.
Only deluded and delusional person will deny this truth.
Common sense.
Common sense none of you have.
Bunch of dumbasses repeating BS.
You’re a lone ranger in idiocy and love of genocide.
The Gazans are trapped in their prison and can’t escape into either Egypt or Israel so you are probably right.
Wow, and all this time i thought it was to bring humanitarian aid.
Ok, let’s tell that to hamas so they attack it and destroy it.
We’ll then explain to the Palestinians that the reason they aren’t getting food is because some idiot named Cory C
Presented plenty of intelligence and evidence that the pier would be used to exterminate Palestinians. Im sure they’ll understand. 🤷🏽♂️
We just cannot refrain from sticking our military appendage into every damned situation. What a waste of genetic material American leadership has become.
I can remember an organization called the Peace Corps which might have been a more appropriate organizing entity for relief to the victims of Israel’s American financed pogrom.
At this late juncture in Biden’s undistinguished reign, I would venture there’s a 50% chance that the mortars were fired by Israelis or American agents, in hopes of stirring up more trouble.
The two biggest threats to world peace; the U.S. and the State of Israel.
I have a feeling the Israelis will be dialing the diameter of those mortar rounds up until they inflict a significant number of US casualties. That would give Biden the ultimate cover. The Palestinians don’t only “Hate us for our Freedom,” they also hate us for providing them “Humanitarian Aid!” Expect perfect timing with some bad news such as ICC arrest warrants for “the Israeli Churchill.”
The purpose of the pier isn’t for the delivery of aid but the forced expulsion of Palestinians. We are to believe this fairy tale and that Israel isn’t committing genocide.
Yeah, “Israel will provide security”.. Another brilliant idea from the Biden cabal.
Gee, it’s like they want the humanitarian relief to fail.
Who would you prefer, genius.
Hamas and Russia?
You can thank hamas for this war just like you can thank nazi Putin for his personal war in Ukraine.
And I can thank you to STFU!
“US officials insist the US military personnel will stay hundreds of meters offshore, but that puts them easily in range of Hamas rockets”
One hopes the Russian Federation doesn’t decide to supply Hamassian freedom-fighters with HIMARS… I mean, it’s ALWAYS OKAY to supply weapon systems to states that have been invaded, right ? Isn’t that the rule(s based order) ?
https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1770782374751604952
Does it surprise anyone that Hamas is trying to prevent the building of the pier? Hamas has traded and continues to trade Gaza lives for good PR.
First of all, there is no need for a pier. If Biden made one phone call aid could pour in on trucks immediately. Secondly, the IDF is Hamas’ enemy. Do you actually think that they wouldn’t try to kill the enemy?
The pier is for deporting Palestinians.
You can check out, but you may never return again, in Hotel Gaza.
Biden is not in charge
Yeah, I get that. He’s still the one to make the phone call.
….and read haltingly from his prepared script by his handlers.
Which I’d be fine with.
Never has been in anything.
Or maybe take him at face value. George Galaxy has commented below that the pier bis for deporting the perplex of Gaza…!!!!!!
Hamas is in war with Israeli forces. Israeli forces are killing Palestinians in Gaza and they are not there to help Palestinians at. The PR stunt is by Israel pretending to care about Palestinians by preparing for the pier. There more easier ways of getting much needed aid to Gaza than the pier. The whole pier project is nothing more than PR stunt by the Biden administration and nothing more than a smoke screen to fool those who are un-informed and make the deluded ones feel comfortable with the US and Israeli actions .
Instead of Hitler as the ultimate evil, will Bibi now take his place?
European and European American arrogance empowered are the ultimate evil.
Jews claim not to be European but Semitic. Before Europe was strong, it was weak. Europe was victimized then, often by Semites (eg. Arabs) and Ottomans, sometimes Mongols and Huns.
Meanwhile,back on earth,Hamas attacked Israel,committed war crimes,and uses innocent hostages as tools.
So, Israel responds with much worse crimes to win the competition?
They just wanted some prisoners as bargaining to get some of their prisoners released in Israel.
Yeah sure.
Because that’s how we get people back.
You are as dumb as hamas.
Yu would have made a good guard at a Concentration Camp, hypocrite.
Did the persecuted in Germany in the 30s and 40s just love those trains? Same thing. That pier represents their forced exit from their homeland in the future.
So then you and them can eat a d!ck.
No pier, no food.
Get a lie and get your corrupt mind out of genital candy for you.
Did the Jews in Europe during the nazi reign love the trains too?
It gets more absurd by the day, an absurd idea from the start when there are hundreds of trucks loaded with food and medical supplies waiting for access into Gaza. Why would the Israelis allow the pier? Other than silly propaganda it is nothing, just sadistic joke on starving and dying people. Leave it to a deranged so-called president, and they want him to get reelected? Can it get crazier than that?
The Republicans ensured that we reelected one war criminal in 2004, now it’s the Democrat’s turn to engineer the reelection of another only 20 years later.
Both parties operate the same way. I can’t name any honorable elected official regardless of party. I want to believe we do have some exceptions, but I don’t know of one.
Thomas Massie is one.
I respect Kati Porter, but it has been quiet around her, I admired the work she did.
MvGuy
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& nine 11 too with it’s sketchy provenance. The San Diego “terrorists lived with a government informer, but after the event government investigators were forbidden from questioning him. And unless I mistaken was later learned that tSaudi Ambassador “Bandar Bush” wife had given money to the wives of these guy’s. wives. There is a goldmine of questionable actions around these two hijackers who flew the plane into the Pentagon being mined by a local University there. I will return here & post a link to their investigations.
“SHARMA: Yes, he did. And the bit about doctor sheik being an informant for the FBI and having these 2 September 11th hijackers live with him, that wasn’t lost on any of the inquiries into these attacks. The point is made in the investigations into 911, and the FBI in San Diego is criticized, A, for not following FBI policy that terrorism, counter terrorism was supposed to be the top priority. And during the investigations various reports concluded that the FBI or the inspector general’s report concluded that the FBI was more focused on drug trafficking. They also say that the fact that sheik was an FBI informant while these guys were living with him was a missed opportunity for the FBI to have scrutinized Nawaf al-Hasmi and Khalid Mihdhar more closely. I spoke with Bill Gore about that, and he says that sheik — there was no reason to scrutinize these two men before the attacks other than the fact that they were Muslim. They were here legally, they held valid driver’s licenses. So secondly he says, had the CIA, which knew that the two guys had attended al Qaeda meetings in Malaysia, that they knew at least one of them had gotten a visa to enter the United States, had they shared that information with the FBI, then the FBI could have at least retraced their steps in San Diego and perhaps helped find these guys.”
Just google “Retracing The Story: 911 Hijackers in San Diego
the FBI was more focused on drug trafficking
There isn’t as much graft available investigating terrorism, generally they’re terrorists because they can’t afford a whole army.
Most likely a false flag incident designed to bring the US into murdering civilians.
If the US wants Palestinians to get humanitarian aid, all they have to do is tell Israel to allow the trucks in, but they won’t. This pier is being built for Israel, so goods arriving will be for the Zionist, because the Red Sea is blocking goods to Israel. The USA is supplying LETHAL Weapons to slaughter defenseless human beings, the USA has already allowed starvation, allowed destruction of hospitals, allowed and continues to allow the Genocide. How stupid are those in D.C., that they think American Soldiers with weapons will be welcome. The American Soldiers are NOT going to protect Palestinians and the Palestinians know that. American Soldiers work for Zionist THUGS in D.C., not our Republic! The UN needs to stop this pier from being built and if the Palestinians want the Pier, they should be the ones in control of it.
Israel already has Mediterranean ports, so why would they need a pier off Gaza to get goods in for themselves?
The US will not tell Israel to stop, because the people who should be telling them are Israelis.
Man those trucks with US Marines and see how long the blockade stays in place. The IDF isn’t all that brave when there are people who shoot back, this generation isn’t their grandparents.
IDF doesn’t need to attack US forces.
Those are their allies, genius.
Not formal allies, dunce. And that didn’t stop those master race ideologues from attacking the Liberty.
Why would it be Israeli forces making preparation for the US pier?
To push the Palestinians off the end of it.
I’ll reiterate what I said before. This pier is designed to allow the US to deliver MILITARY aid – and perhaps US troops – into Israel once Israeli air fields and ports are under heavy fire from Hezbollah and/or Iran in the upcoming war which THE US AND ISRAEL ARE PLANNING.
“President Biden ordered the drastic measure instead of pressuring Israel to open more land crossings into Gaza,”
Biden has no power to order Israel. Israel will do what it wants to do which is to commit genocide and send Blinken to shed some crocodile tears on occasion and feign outrage at the crimes being committed.
Meanwhile Biden keeps huffing and puffing, powerless to antagonize Netanyahu.
one might think that uncle sam should protect his little butt-boys
Naturally, that latest $27 BILLION charity package from congress to Israel came with no strings attached. We still have to construct our own pier in order to get humanitarian aid to the starving Palestinian peasants. We’re not allowed to just ship it in via the border crossings.
The White House has already admitted that Israel will be allowed to “inspect” and delay any aid before it goes on the ships, and again before it’s offloaded, and will control entrance and exit off the pier. So essentially they will allow exactly the same restrictions as the land routes, and the only beneficiaries will be a single shipping company and some warehouses in Crete. Oh, and Biden of course, for being able to pretend to be doing something not-evil.
Sorry, I just cannot help it, but, how do we know that the IDF did not lob the mortar shells? We know that the pier may serve a dual purpose, bring aid to Gaza or “emigrating” Palestinians, but who knows?
Prove it
NOw you’ve incurred the wrath of Julio Down by the Schoolyard.
Hamas does stupid and criminal shit like that all the time.
Radars can show where the projectiles cone from. People talk, ISR can see firing locations.
It’s not that hard.
But idiots like you like to start conspiracies without any proof.
If “emigrating” Palestinians is the motive for the pier, then the US is party to the ethnic cleansing. But, at least in theory, the pier is for humanitarian aid to be delivered, not saving Palestinains. But yes indeed saving Palestinians may be the humanitarian solution. And if so, when the Gazans are down 50%, maybe they will finally leave, thus advancing the “ethnically pure” State of the Jews. But the resistance will only increase, unfortunately, and the anti-Semitism will become real, as predicted by anti-Zionist Rabbis at the time of the Zionist Congresses in the early 1900’s.
Bull…. article. Us is a direct party to this ongoing genocide but hamas will not target the us if only humanitarian aid comes through the pier
This Pier isn’t for humanitarian aid. U.S. has plan for that gas deposit off the coast that Israeli are too chicken to build.
Sure. Whatever BS you say.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/israel-gives-nod-gaza-marine-gas-development-wants-security-assurances-2023-06-18/
This was 4 months before Oct 7th.
Now go play with your instrument.
Of course there is no possibility that these attacks, which resulted in no casualties, were made by Israelis forces. Nooo. Israelis are friends of the USA. They would not so such a thing.
The attacks will continue.
Stop the project. They can eat sh!t.
Oh, but the people,
The people need to stop these attacks.
The modern nation of Israel was born out of the ashes of Treblinka, Birkenau, and other such places. The Israelis will do whatever they think is necessary to keep that from happening again. The Palestinians were invaded by foreign people who created a country on their land. I’m not optimistic about there ever being a peaceful resolution in the area until nuclear weapons are used.
Here is a novel idea why doesn’t the US end all Aid to Israel until they allow the food trucks that are already trying to get in to actually go in?