US plans for Gaza aid pier branded ‘smokescreen’ to allow Israeli invasion of Rafah

The aid trucks need to be allowed into Gaza. Israel needs to be stopped by international pressure. This is genocide.

Biden does not care at all for the people of Gaza, that’s very clear with the money/ weapons he sends to Israel.

EDIT: you can keep downvoting since it doesn’t mean much on Lemmy. However, it is true. If he actually cared about the lives of the Palestinian people, he wouldn’t send so much to Israel due to the very fact, he knows that it will be used for the genocide on Palestinian people.

Well i dont think he can afford to care, politics is a costly game and someone has to pay for it.
Or you know, he does care but internal US politics as well as international geopolitics are actually more complicated than you think and Biden can't just do whatever the fuck he wants just because he's president.
- At a certain point you have to wonder what the value of liberal democracy is if it can't help but be compelled into materially supporting genocide.
- No, he does not care at all. Biden said lots of times, he fully supports Israel. When someone says that while the particular state is committing genocide - the person truly does not care about the lives of the people who are being brutally murdered.
  
  At some point the geopolitics and internal US politics needs to setback and you need to take a hard look and think about the more than 33 000 lives that have been taken away.
  
  This is not about “doing anything he wants just because, he’s president”. Despite the fact Biden cannot do ‘everything he wants’ - he certainly has a great influence of what happens (he’s president after all). The US refused to agree to a ceasefire multiple times.
  
  He could for example put pressure on not giving the money to Israel until ceasefire happens and pressure to not give any weapons and such if they (Israel) decide to continue.
  
  Also this is just me probably nitpicking but why can’t you write without rude words?
- Israels internal politics is also driving it to do genocide. Doesnt excuse Bibi from doing the genocide. Doesnt excuse Biden supporting the genocide.

"More than 1 million Palestinians are now sheltering in Rafah. The IDF wants them to move out so that it can conduct an offensive against Hamas units in the city."

To where ?

They keep doing this. They herd them somewhere, start shooting and bombing, then herd the survivors somewhere else, telling them that's the safe place.

And, of course, they can always justify it by claiming that there were Hamas militants hiding in the crowds. Which... sounds like it makes them not an especially urgent target?
- I mean if you decimate an entire country with multiple nukes' worth of explosives, any civilian population left is probably going to harbour a few resistance members
The afterlife
The IOF has built a camp for the concentration of civilians North of Rafah. I wonder if there's a name for such an unprecedented structure.

https://thecradle.co/articles/thousands-of-tents-set-up-in-central-gaza-as-israel-prepares-to-enter-rafah
- Problem. The IDF has been shooting Palestinians who try to move through their lines for months now. There's no confidence that the IDF will suddenly start letting them through.

I thought that picture was a screenshot of the movie District 9. Now making a parallel, even those alien guys were treated better than Palestinians.

The picture looks insane. As first I thought it was AI generated because the parachutes and the building looked so weird. Everything is bent and spiky. But it's actually real.

This is so surreal, I thought it was a screenshot from District 9.

Note how the "aid port" never actually materialised but the invasion of Rafah did

If only people understood how time or construction projects work...
- Yeah, it's much slower than destruction projects
On the day after March 7 when was announced, US military brass said it would take approximately sixty days and that the goal date to open would be May 1.

Sounds like they'll be pretty close to that date. At least six ships have deployed to the Mediterranean with 1,000 troops and the Pentagon said yesterday "by the end of April or early May."

I don't know what's involved with the project enough to speculate as to how long it should take and whether the Army and Navy engineers are making good time or not.

The invasion of Rafah has been inevitable for months if you've heard anything Israel has said. The Hamas big whigs followed their own families and neighbors to Rafah, using them as human shields. The war is about ending Hamas and destroying the tunnel system. The tunnels go to Rafah, therefore the IDF was going to Rafah.
- One ship also had issues on its way and had to turn back. It's coming, but building a port from scratch isn't instant sadly. This is the channel to watch for anything involving shipping.
  
  Edit: The human shield argument is bullshit though. Gaza is one of the most populated places on Earth. There are civilians everywhere. There's no option for not being around civilians.
- Reminder that the existence of a local civilian population does not constitute a human shield. The Israelis seem to want Hamas to all line up in an empty field and unfurl a "strike here" sign, which is obviously unreasonable. Classically, a human shield is holding a guy physically in front of you. It can be extended a bit, like if you operate a missile battery from a declared POW camp, but I don't think they'd be comfortable with their stated doctrine if it was extended to, say, the Warsaw uprising.
  
  Other than that, yeah, I'm pretty sure the pier is still in the works, even if Israel is going to use it as an excuse to permit even less aid-wise.
- Oh give off with the "human shields" bullshit, I won't even bother giving you a response because you deserve no such respect from me.
  
  Fuck off back to reddit if you want to spout baseless Zionism.
- The war is about ending Hamas and destroying the tunnel system
  
  That may have been arguable on Oct. 8th, but no one with eyes and a brain buys that anymore. It is a war of annihilation, they are destroying all of Gaza and crushing hopes of a Palestinian nation. The Israeli establishment has made it clear they don't support a Palestinian state of any kind.
  
  Even during this current escalation they have continued to annex land in the West Bank, what does that have to do with Hamas or tunnels?

Is the UN official saying that the pier is enabling the Israeli invasion of Rafah, as though it wouldn't happen otherwise? Or is he saying that but for the pier, Israel will open more land crossing to aid?

And what is the corrective action? Should the pier be built somewhere else, or not at all? Are their any factors about where to locate the pier besides political? Like the depth of the water or existing infrastructure?

And if the problem with the aid is that it's a meaningless PR gesture, then does PR medicine not heal? Dose PR food not nourish?

Please help me understand why delivering food and medicine to Gaza is bad.

The UN officials aren't saying any of those things. Here's a tldr of the issue

The platform is meant to be in Northern Gaza where the worst of the starvation is

Israel wants it to be moved south to an Israeli choke point

Israel is about to close the crossings in South Gaza so it can attack Rafah

If the tiny amount of aid that can come in is able to be diverted to South Gaza then Israel may face less international condemnation over this phase of the Gaza genocide.

Please help me understand why delivering food and medicine to Gaza is bad.

If there is a starving child and you can choose to deliver them the nutrients they need but instead you choose to give them half a peanut instead, in a really theatrical way, that's obviously bad right?

That's what's happening here.
- At no point was a pier planned for north Gaza, the first place to be evacuated, six months ago.
  
  Israel will be inspecting every delivery since Hamas has proved again and again that if it takes part in international commerce, it will be in the business of killing Jews. That's why they didn't have their own port to begin with. It's not a choke point, it's a highway interchange. That's generally where you want to build the port. It's literally the opposite of a choke point.
  
  Egypt is in charge of the southern border crossing not Israel. Egypt doesn't want terrorists moving weapons and fighters over its border, either.
Is this post about delivering aid being bad or does the title and article clearly state that this is a distraction tactic? Please help me understand your thought process of questioning things the article clearly answers.
How do you get the materials in to build a pier? That should answer your questions if they are in good faith.
- The US military is building the floating pier with materials they get from the US taxpayer. If you're trying to argue it's a waste of tax dollars, its not.

Shocked-Pikachu.png

It's a pier to ship the natural gas reserves under Gaza when they extract it

"Branded"