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Offline rangerrebew

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US-led Gaza humanitarian aid pier comes under fire, UN officials say
« on: April 26, 2024, 12:29:40 pm »
US-led Gaza humanitarian aid pier comes under fire, UN officials say
By Lolita C. Baldor, Julia Frankel and Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
 Apr 25, 04:49 PM
 
The Navy is sending hundreds of sailors and multiple ships to help construct a humanitarian aid pier off the Gaza Strip. Soldiers are shown here building such a causeway off the coast of Australia in 2023. (Army)
JERUSALEM — An under-construction pier for a U.S.-led project to bring aid into the Gaza Strip came under fire Wednesday, forcing U.N. officials to take shelter there, Israeli and U.N. officials said.

No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault, which the Israelis described as a mortar shell attack.


Authorities said that no one was wounded.

The attack marks a shaky start to the construction of the pier, a project that the U.S. is spearheading to surge humanitarian aid into Gaza. A Hamas official told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the militant group will resist any foreign military presence involved with the port project.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/04/25/us-led-gaza-humanitarian-aid-pier-comes-under-fire-un-officials-say/
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Re: US-led Gaza humanitarian aid pier comes under fire, UN officials say
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2024, 12:30:47 pm »
Was there any doubt, in anyone's mind, anywhere in the world, that this wouldn't happen? :tongue2:
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Re: US-led Gaza humanitarian aid pier comes under fire, UN officials say
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2024, 01:35:40 pm »
To end Gazans' suffering, Hamas can surrender and release their hostages at any time.

Hamas and Iran want to draw Western nations, and their troops, into an asymmetrical ground conflict to bleed the solidarity, treasure, and resolve of the West to remain in the Middle East.

We don't need Middle East oil anymore, (unless Biden buy oil from Iran to replenish the Stategic Petroleum Reserve), so we don't need to be on the ground nor in the region.  Let the buyers or suppliers of Persian Gulf oil expend their own blood and treasure to protect freedom of navigation.

America does not need to expend more blood and treasure to provide security to Britain's former protectorates in the Middle East.

Empires die for a reason ... they over-extend themselves in wars of foreign adventure and ignore the homefront.

What did America get for 20 years in Afghanistan?  Heroin and more future terrorists.

What did America get for nearly 20 years in Iraq?  ISIS/ISIL

There will not be a Pax Americana in the Middle East.  It is a mirage that has distracted and beguiled American foreign policy since the late 1940's.
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Re: US-led Gaza humanitarian aid pier comes under fire, UN officials say
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2024, 04:21:55 pm »
Israeli media is reporting that Hamas launched two attacks today on the pier that U.S. forces are building off the coast of Gaza

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1788302729481232568
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Re: US-led Gaza humanitarian aid pier comes under fire, UN officials say
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2024, 05:24:41 pm »
A new artificial reef and diving tourist destination?
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