“They didn’t fully understand what was going to happen with the weather … So the DoD [Department of Defence] walks away, humiliated in a fashion.”

I’m sorry but do they expect me to believe the worlds deadliest and most expensive military failed to account for the weather instead of believing they deploed an intentionally half assed solution for victims of their closest ally to appease public opinion?

They didn’t miscalculate anything. Genocide has always been the plan

So for 300 million dollars they managed to enter 250 truckloads of which most is rotting away because israel is bombing the aid delivery vehicles and the aid is stuck at the pier.

Only Biden could make air dropping look like a cost effective solution.

There’s a book the U.S. military might have heard of. I know it’s kind of rare and most people don’t know it exists, but there’s this ancient book all about a guy getting tossed from one place to the next in a series of huge Mediterranean storms. Like I said, rare book, you might not have heard of it, not sure. Anyway, it’s called “The Odyssey” and you guys really should check it out next time you’re not sure whether or not there’s severe weather there.

I hope they learn good lessons from this. The main strength of the US military is its logistics, and being unable to deploy a simple pier is concerning.

Did Boeing build this thing?

If only this military had the world’s largest amphibious logistic capability. If only the ships delivering to the Pier could also deliver to beaches.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A floating pier built by the US military for seaborne humanitarian deliveries to Gaza has proved itself to be fragile in the face of rougher seas than expected, and the future of the whole $230m project is now in question.

When he announced it in his state of the union speech on 7 March, Joe Biden said the temporary pier “would enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day”.

Over the entire course of the pier’s operation so far, however, only about 250 truckloads of food and other humanitarian assistance (4,100 tonnes) have arrived by the planned maritime corridor, less than half of what would cross into Gaza in a single day before the war.

Since 274 Palestinians were killed by Israel Defense Forces in the course of a hostage rescue mission on 8 June, the World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended the convoys that were supposed to take pallets of aids from the marshalling yard to warehouses and then to the 2.3 million people of Gaza under bombardment and facing famine.

The pier was intended as a means of getting aid ashore independently of Israel to the besieged and devastated coastal strip, after the Biden administration became frustrated with the lack of access for relief supplies through land crossings.

“With need in Gaza growing as well as the extreme insecurity that is making onward distribution from Keren Shalom in particular incredibly difficult for humanitarian organisations, the maritime pier is a critical additional conduit for aid deliveries,” a US official said.

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lol, miscalculated? 😂

The entire purpose of the pier was to use it as a Trojan horse to get military into the refugee camp disguised in aid trucks so they could do their “hostage rescue mission” where they murdered 274 people.

It served its purpose.

It’s hard to tell if it was/is logistically effective vs. everyone shitting in it because that’s trendy rn.

With knowing absolutely nothing, I can only assume it’s an excellent concept that will (unfortunately) help a lot in a broad range of situations.

At the moment, plenty of creases to iron out, but it’s not a failure and humanitarian aid can definitely bolster with it.