GAZA July 18. 2024 (Saba) - The US army has announced the end of the mission of the floating dock that it built off the coast of Gaza, supposedly to deliver aid to the Strip, noting that “the aid will be transported via ships sailing from Cyprus to Ashdod port.”
The aid that reaches Ashdod will then be transported by trucks that cross the northern Gaza Strip, American media quoted Deputy Commander of the US Central Command, Bradley Cooper, as saying, noting that the Zionist army controls the crossings and deliberately prevents the required aid from reaching the Strip, in the framework of the war of starvation and genocide it is waging against people there.
Cooper claimed that “the dock achieved its goal of increasing the volume of aid to Gaza and ensuring its delivery,” but his statement came only days after US President Joe Biden expressed his “disappointment with the dock’s failure to deliver aid to the Strip.” He wished that it was "more effective."
It is noteworthy that the announcement of ending the mission of the temporary pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip comes after it was exposed to difficult weather conditions, which led to parts of it being washed away, and criticism escalated against it due to its failure to deliver aid and provide humanitarian cover for American support for Zionist crimes.
The Chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the US House of Representatives, Mike Rogers, had called on the US administration, in a letter, to close the pier (which cost $230 million according to the New York Times), describing the delivery of aid through it as an “ineffective, risky and wasteful for money process."
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