WOW - you can't make this up! Apparently the US Military will be ordered into the Gaza Strip to build a new port. What could POSSIBLY go wrong. Via Time.
President Joe Biden plans to order the U.S. military to establish a temporary port along the coast of Gaza in the coming weeks to allow more humanitarian aid to reach Palestinian civilians, senior administration officials said Thursday.
Biden plans to announce the “emergency mission” during his State of the Union address on Thursday evening. “We are not waiting on the Israelis," a senior official told reporters, signaling the administration’s growing frustration with its ally. “We know the aid flowing into Gaza is nowhere near enough and nowhere near fast enough.” The operation will establish a port on the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that will be able to receive large ships with food, water, medicine and temporary shelters.
Officials on Thursday insisted the Biden administration is "not planning for this to be an operation that would require U.S. boots on the ground," saying the U.S. will be able to carry out the work "from just offshore." The shipments of supplies would come from the port of Larnaca in Cyprus, and be delivered from the pier in Gaza with the help of U.S. partners including the United Nations and other humanitarian agencies. The U.S. forces required to carry this out "are either already in the region or will begin to move there soon," officials said.
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