Sunday 19 May 2024

Perpetual War: Allies Keep Hamas Well Supplied

 

Britain will feed 11,000 Palestinians a month after helping build new aid pier in Gaza as beleaguered strip is rocked by more heavy clashes

  • US announced completion of floating pier to deliver aid to Gaza
Britain will feed thousands each month of Palestinians through a newly-completed pier off the Mediterranean coast.

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said in a statement the first shipment to Gaza, which has left Cyprus , is expected to 'provide enough provisions to feed 11,000 people for a month'.

The temporary pier was constructed by the US Navy and Army at a cost of $320mn.

Britain has played a key role in securing the maritime corridor from Cyprus, where it still retains military bases.

Humanitarian aid trucks begin to enter Gaza via the newly-constructed temporary pier, May 18

Trucks begin to enter Gaza via the newly-constructed temporary pier

Royal Navy support ship "Cardigan Bay" at work in the Red Sea on April 26. The ship played a role in supporting an international effort to build the temporary pier in Gaza

Royal Navy support ship 'Cardigan Bay'. The ship played a role in supporting an international effort to build the temporary pier in Gaza

A truck carrying aid delivered into Gaza via a floating pier is seen in central Gaza Strip, May 17

A truck which entered Gaza via the floating pier

A crane lifts aid onto a barge at the Port of Ashdod in Israel on May 16

A crane lifts aid onto a barge at the Port of Ashdod in Israel

As part of the package, the first of 8,400 shelter coverage kits intended as temporary housing for residents have now arrived in Gaza.

More aid, including 2,000 additional coverage kits, 900 tents, five forklift trucks and 9,200 hygiene kits, are expected to follow in the coming weeks.

Some 500 tonnes of supplies are expected to pass through the floating pier in the coming days, then guided by Israeli forces to an area near Gaza City, in the north, before being distributed.

Israeli troops during operations to connect a floating pier to bring humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip

Israeli troops during operations to connect the floating pier 

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Kirby says there will be 'small US military component' on Gaza pier


A 'small' contingent of U.S. military personnel will provide security for a new $320 million floating pier bringing food aid to hungry residents of Gaza amid Israel's war on Hamas , the White House said. White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters the U.S. military members would be there to provide security and assist in the complex orchestration of moving relief by sea and then distributing it to desperate residents by truck. He said there would be a 'small U.S. military component on the pier itself.'

A 'small' contingent of U.S. military personnel will provide security for a new $320 million floating pier bringing supplies to Gaza

'One is to provide a modicum of security for it. But also to assist with the logistics. You're going to have ships pulling up to this pier. Not the big cargo ships. They'll transport it to smaller ships off the coast of Gaza ... You're going to need some logistical support to get it from the ships onto the trucks,' he said. His comments to reporters come just two days after U.S. Central Command announced it had successfully anchored the pier to the beach in Gaza. It stressed that no U.S. troops entered Gaza proper.

'You're going to need some logistical support to get it from the ships onto the trucks,' he said.

'As part of this effort, no U.S. troops entered Gaza. Trucks carrying humanitarian assistance are expected to begin moving ashore in the coming days. The United Nations will receive the aid and coordinate its distribution into Gaza,' according to the statement. Kirby was emphatic that 'there are no U.S. servicemembers in Gaza.' President Biden, while providing billions in U.S. congressionally-appropriated military support to Gaza and using naval assets to protect navigation while helping foil attacks on Israel, has not involved U.S. forces in Israel's operation in Gaza. Kirby's comments about U.S. forces came as he said there was a 'robust security plan' for the effort, and that the administration was 'laser focused on ensuring the safety of everybody involved in this effort,' amid concerns it could be vulnerable to attack.

Trucks carrying supplies for Gaza

Coming soon from USAID would be 170 metric tons of nutrient rich food bars, Kirby said, to create more than ' 7,200 cases of severe wasting in children. There would also be 90 metric tons of platic sheeting and jerry cans to carry water, among other supplies. Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on border crossings and heavy fighting hindered the delivery of food and other supplies.

Coming soon would be 170 metric tons of nutrient rich food bars, Kirby said. There would also be 90 metric tons of plastic sheeting, and jerry cans to carry water, among other supplies. 

The shipment is the first in an operation that American military officials anticipate could scale up to 150 truckloads a day, all while Israel presses in on the southern city of Rafah in its seven-month offensive against Hamas . At the White House , National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said "more than 300 pallets" of aid were in the initial delivery and handed over to the U.N., which was preparing it for distribution. Kirby said the U.S. has gotten indications that "some of that aid was already moving into Gaza." But the U.S. and aid groups warn that the floating pier project is not a substitute for land deliveries that could bring in all the food, water and fuel needed in Gaza. Before the war, more than 500 truckloads entered the territory on an average day.

American military officials anticipate the operation could scale up to 150 truckloads a day

The operation's success also remains tenuous because of the risk of militant attack, logistical hurdles and a growing shortage of fuel for the aid trucks due to the Israeli blockade of Gaza since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. Militants killed 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage in that assault on southern Israel. The Israeli offensive since has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza, local health officials say, while hundreds more have been killed in the West Bank. Aid agencies say they are running out of food in southern Gaza and fuel is dwindling, while the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.N. World Food Program say famine has already taken hold in Gaza´s north. Troops finished installing the floating pier on Thursday, and the U.S. military's Central Command said the first aid crossed into Gaza at 9 a.m. Friday. It said no American troops went ashore in the operation.

The operation's success also remains tenuous because of the risk of attack by Hamas terrorists

The Pentagon said no backups were expected in the distribution process . The U.S. plan is for the United Nations, through its World Food Program, to take charge of the aid once it leaves the pier. This will involve coordinating the arrival of empty trucks and their registration, overseeing the transfer of goods coming through the floating dock to the trucks and their dispatch to warehouses across Gaza, and, finally, handing over the supplies to aid groups for delivery. The U.K. said some of its aid for Gaza was in the first shipment that went ashore, including the first of 8,400 kits to provide temporary shelter made of plastic sheeting. And it said more aid, including 2,000 additional shelter kits, 900 tents, five forklift trucks and 9,200 hygiene kits, will follow in the coming weeks.


"This is the culmination of a Herculean joint international effort," said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. "We know the maritime route is not the only answer. We need to see more land routes open, including via the Rafah crossing, to ensure much more aid gets safely to civilians in desperate need of help." Aid distribution had not yet begun as of Friday afternoon, said a U.N. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. The official said the process of unloading and reloading cargo was still ongoing. The U.N. humanitarian aid coordinating agency said the start of the operation was welcome but not a replacement for deliveries by land . "I think everyone in the operation has said it: Any and all aid into Gaza is welcome by any route," Jens Laerke, spokesman of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told journalists in Geneva on Friday. Getting aid to people in Gaza "cannot and should not depend on a floating dock far from where needs are most acute."


The U.N. earlier said fuel deliveries brought through land routes have all but stopped and that would make it extremely difficult to bring the aid to Gaza´s people. "It doesn´t matter how the aid comes, whether it´s by sea or whether by land, without fuel, aid won´t get to the people," U.N. deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said Thursday. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said the issue of fuel deliveries comes up in all U.S. conversations with the Israelis. She also said the plan is to begin slowly with the sea route and ramp up the truck deliveries over time as they work the kinks out of the system . Israel fears Hamas will use fuel in the war, but it asserts it places no limits on the entry of humanitarian aid and blames the U.N. for delays in distributing goods entering Gaza. Under pressure from the U.S., Israel has opened a pair of crossings to deliver aid into the territory's hard-hit north in recent weeks.

Fuel deliveries brought through land routes have all but stopped. Israel fears Hamas will use fuel in the war. Already, the site has been targeted by mortar fire during its construction, and Hamas has threatened to target any foreign forces who enter the Gaza Strip. The aid for the sea route is collected and inspected in Cyprus, then loaded onto ships and taken about 200 miles (320 kilometers) to the large floating pier off the Gaza coast. There, the pallets are transferred onto the trucks that then drive onto Army boats, which shuttle the trucks from the pier to a floating causeway anchored to the beach. Once the trucks drop off the aid, they return to the boats. 

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'They will even shoot me': Elderly Gazan citizen risks her life to speak out against Hamas as she claims 'all aid goes underground' and is not reaching those in need

A fearless elderly woman in Gaza risked her life to speak out against Hamas as some brave Palestinians call for the terrorists’ downfall.

Footage shows the courageous Palestinian wagging her finger at a reporter and telling him that their humanitarian aid has been stolen by the Hamas regime.

She chose to tell the world of their crimes despite fearing the Hamas terrorists ‘will even shoot me’ for dissent.

Other Palestinians in the war-ravaged territory have said the Hamas terrorists steal their food, loot their homes and lure Israeli attacks onto civilians.

The elderly woman, in a headscarf, was seen berating an Al Jazeera (terrorist propaganda network) reporter who suggested aid was not reaching her due to the ‘difficult’ situation. 

She told him: ‘All aid goes down underground. The aid does not reach the nation and the entire people.

‘A lot is coming. But what we get  is only a little.

As the reporter again tries to suggest the situation is ‘difficult’ she shakes her finger at him in front of a crowd of Palestinians.

She says: ‘Everything goes to Hamas houses. They take it, they will even shoot me and do whatever they want to me, Hamas.’

Another young Palestinian mother also accused Hamas of stealing their food. Seen stood cradling her young baby, she told a reporter she wanted this message to ‘reach all countries of the world’.

She said: ‘You send us humanitarian aid, but I swear to God that we get nothing. Only if we chase Hamas and beg. They mock us when we ask. They humiliate us.’

The woman said the terrorists ‘take advantage of us’ and declared: ‘May God take revenge on them.’

The Daily Mail has been handed a trove of damning evidence including incriminating footage of the terrorists stealing humanitarian aid from their own people.

Men, purportedly Hamas terrorists, are seen unloading a truck said to be carrying aid into Gaza. Israel has accused the terror group of hijacking aid trucks carrying supplies that were meant for the civilians of the beleaguered coastal strip

Hamas terrorists unloading a truck carrying aid into Gaza. The terror group hijacks aid trucks carrying supplies that were meant for the civilians.

In one aerial clip, the group of men are seen beating another. According to IDF drone operators, the group was made up of Hamas fighters, while the victim on the end of the beating was a civilian from Gaza

A group of Hamas terrorists are seen beating a civilian from Gaza. 

The IDF said the footage was captured in Shejaiya, Gaza by a drone

Footage captured in Shejaiya, Gaza by a drone

The IDF said Hamas took the aid back to its stronghold, even though it was meant for civilians

Hamas took the aid back to its stronghold, even though it was meant for civilians 

When trucks bring in humanitarian aid, Hamas terrorists go there and steal all the aid and equipment.

The civilians throw stones at Hamas and Hamas threatens them with guns.

In one drone clip shared by the IDF, a group of Hamas terrorists in Gaza are shown stealing aid off a humanitarian truck. 

The group of armed men are seen crowded around the truck, while one is shown hitting a civilian with a weapon or some kind of baton.

The terror group transports the packages to their stronghold, thus depriving the citizens of the aid that was meant for them.

Hamas has also deliberately killed aid workers in order to drive food prices up, which Hamas can thus sell back to civilians at the higher prices.


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