{"id":2238026,"date":"2024-05-06T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaza-pier-construction-nears-completion-by-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T04:15:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:15:56","slug":"gaza-pier-construction-nears-completion-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaza-pier-construction-nears-completion-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Pier Construction Close to Finish: By the Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgaza-pier-construction-nears-completion-by-the-numbers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2238026&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>U.S. forces \u200dare nearing completion\u200c of a temporary port off Gaza&#8217;s coast in \u200bthe Mediterranean Sea. Construction faced weather challenges, leading to a temporary halt. Once operational, the pier will facilitate the delivery of humanitarian \u2064aid. The project costs approximately $320 million and \u200cinvolves about 1,000\u200d U.S. forces, aiming \u2063to assist Gaza post-conflict. U.S. forces are close to finishing a temporary\u2063 port near\u200d Gaza&#8217;s Mediterranean coast.\u200d Adverse weather conditions caused\u2064 a temporary construction pause. The port aims to streamline \u2063humanitarian \u2063aid delivery, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rick-santorum-its-time-to-invest-in-real-infrastructure\/\" title=\"Rick Santorum: It's Time to Invest in Real Infrastructure\">project cost<\/a> of about $320\u200d million \u2063and\u200c participation of around 1,000\u200d U.S. forces, focusing\u2062 on supporting post-conflict efforts in Gaza.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/u-s-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>U.S. forces<\/a> are close to completing construction of a temporary port in the Mediterranean Sea off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Gaza\u2019s<\/a> coast, but the weather has proven to be a recent obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/construction-work-paused-at-brighton-park-migrant-camp-after-environmental-review-revealed-contaminants\/\" title=\"Construction halted at Brighton Park migrant camp due to contaminants found during environmental review\">temporarily paused construction<\/a> of the pier on Thursday due to forecasted high winds and high sea swells, according to U.S. Central Command. The military vessels involved in the pier\u2019s construction, as well as the pier itself, were moved to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Israeli<\/a> Port of Ashdod.<\/p>\n<h2>150 aid trucks a day<\/h2>\n<p>Pending further weather delays, the pier should be operational within a number of days. At initial operating capacity, U.S. forces should be able to get a throughput of 90 aid trucks a day and scale up to\u00a0150\u00a0daily at full operating capacity, according to a senior military official.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is effectively building a floating pier that will be about two miles off Gaza\u2019s coast as well as a causeway that will jut out from the beach into the water. Ships packed with humanitarian aid will depart from Cyprus and sail to the pier, where those goods will then be unloaded and reloaded onto smaller ships, known as LCUs for \u201clanding craft utility\u201d and LSVs for \u201clogistics support vessels,\u201d where the aid will then be transported to the causeway. The aid will then get taken off the ships, put on trucks, and driven down the causeway and to shore, where it\u2019ll be handed off to humanitarian groups for distribution.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>This image provided by Maxar Technologies, shows an April 29, 2024, aerial view of USNS Roy P. Benavidez and floating dock sections during construction of the U.S. military\u2019s floating dock that is being assembled offshore of Gaza. The dock and floating pier will be part of the Joint Logistics Over the Shore system that will help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-biden-administration-considers-releasing-money-to-taliban\/\" title=\"Report: Biden Administration Considers Releasing Money to Taliban\">deliver humanitarian aid<\/a> to Gaza. (Satellite image \u00a92024 Maxar Technologies via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>U.S. forces will not be driving the trucks down the causeway and back, nor will they be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/2985491\/austin-gaetz-spar-boots-on-the-ground-gaza-pier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>on the ground in Gaza to distribute aid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power said on Friday that more than 500 pallets of aid had arrived in Cyprus, including enough food to feed 11,000 people for a month, ready-to-use therapeutic foods for more than 7,000 malnutrition cases in children, and relief supplies for more than 33,000 people, and will \u201csoon be routed [through] the maritime corridor.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>$320 million construction<\/h2>\n<p>It is expected to cost roughly\u00a0$320\u00a0million, according to deputy Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh.<\/p>\n<p>The construction of the pier has required about 1,000 U.S. forces and will take about two months to build once it\u2019s operational in total.<\/p>\n<p>The pier is supposed to provide another way for the international community to get humanitarian aid into Gaza, which has been devastated by Israel\u2019s war against Hamas. International experts have warned that every Palestinian in Gaza is facing the threat of famine.<\/p>\n<p>Several entities and governments have called on Israel to allow more aid into Gaza for several months.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden threatened to condition U.S. military aid to Israel after Israeli forces launched an errant drone strike that killed seven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-dominion-machines-breaking-down-in-several-georgia-gop-precincts-voters-told-workers-will-scan-ballots-later\/\" title=\"Reports: Dominion Machines Breaking Down in Several Georgia GOP Precincts; Voters Told Workers Will Scan Ballots Later\">aid workers<\/a> on April 1. Biden told Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washngtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> directly that Israel would have to take several steps to allow more aid into the strip to keep the U.S.-Israeli military partnership as is.<\/p>\n<p>The strike that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/2954836\/israeli-military-fires-reprimands-officers-airstrikes-killing-world-central-kitchen-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>killed the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers<\/a> highlighted the dangerous nature of being in Gaza even for humanitarian employees. <\/p>\n<p>There are also difficulties getting aid from Gaza\u2019s borders to the people who need it most.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday was the first major shipment of aid from Jordan over this new land route through Erez crossing,\u201d State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Thursday. \u201cThe convoys from the Jordan military that brought the aid in unloaded the aid inside Gaza. It was then picked up by a humanitarian implementer for distribution inside Gaza, and that aid was intercepted and diverted by Hamas on the ground in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.N. is either in the process or has by now recovered that aid, but it was an unacceptable act by Hamas to divert this aid to begin with, to seize this aid. We have made clear that it\u2019s an unacceptable act. I think the U.N. partners will be also making clear that it\u2019s an unacceptable act,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. forces near completion of a temporary port off Gaza&#8217;s coast in the Mediterranean. Weather hinders progress with high winds and sea swells, leading to a temporary pause in construction, as reported by U.S. Central Command<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2671,"featured_media":2238027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24121219257085-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24121219257085-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}