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washington — The temporary, floating pier built by the U.S. military to deliver aid to civilians in Gaza has been disconnected and officials say there is a chance it will not be reattached.
Pentagon officials Friday announced the pier, also known as the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) capability, was detached from its connection on the Gaza shoreline and was being moved to the Israeli port of Ashdod because of high seas.
It is not the first time the temporary pier has been taken offline because of rough weather off the coast of Gaza. And officials said, as with previous disruptions, they intend to monitor sea conditions before deciding what happens next.
“I don’t have a date,” said Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh, briefing reporters Friday.
“The commander will continue to assess the sea states over the weekend,” she said. “We’re going to continue to monitor the environmental and weather factors.”
But even if the waters calm, there is a chance the temporary pier will not go back into service.
The U.S. credits the pier with helping to bring more than 8,800 metric tons of aid into Gaza since operations began. However, because of ongoing fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror group, much of the aid has not left the Gaza beach.
“We are pretty close to full on the marshaling yard in terms of how much aid is there,” Singh said.
“If there’s not enough room on the marshaling yard, then it doesn’t make sense to put our men and women out there when there’s nothing to move,” she said. “We do need to see that marshaling yard open up to allow for aid groups to continue that distribution so that we can get more aid in as we get it from Cyprus.”
The U.N. World Food Program suspended distribution of aid coming in via the U.S. military pier on June 9, saying it was not confident its staff or the staff of partner agencies could move safely.
U.S. officials envisioned the temporary pier to Gaza, which has cost at least $230 million, as a supplemental route to deliver aid to civilians impacted by the fighting.
In recent weeks, however, it has become one of the main routes to get aid shipments into Gaza.
“The pier provided the second-highest volume of aid from any entry point into Gaza this past week,” Singh said, adding that more than 4,500 metric tons of aid had transited the pier over the past seven days.
But she said the U.S. remained engaged with Israel to try to make sure other avenues for delivering aid expand.
“We continue to urge for those land routes to be opened. That is the most effective way to get aid in,” she said. “We continue to urge the Israelis to open up those crossings.”
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pentagon — The United States and 28 partner nations have begun the world’s largest naval war exercise off the shores of Hawaii, known as the Rim of the Pacific, or RIMPAC.
This year’s exercise brings international cooperation on a scale like no other: 40 surface ships, more than 150 aircraft, three submarines and 25,000 people.
Nations from around the globe are practicing a wide range of missions, from natural disaster response to attack skills needed for war. While most participants are nations with Pacific coastlines, this year’s RIMPAC also includes non-Pacific nations, including the United Kingdom, France, Brazil and Israel.
“Every nation in the world that has interests in the Pacific and will adhere to the same values is more than welcome to participate,” said Chilean Navy Commodore Alberto Guerrero, RIMPAC deputy commander.
One country not invited? China.
Why? Because the warm welcome RIMPAC gave to China in 2014 and 2016 backfired, according to Markus Garlauskas, director of the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council.
“There was this outreach to China, and definitely the U.S. and its allies and partners were essentially burned by the Chinese taking advantage of it … as an opportunity to essentially collect intelligence and to try and get more acceptance of what should be considered unacceptable behavior,” Garlauskas told VOA.
Since China’s last RIMPAC in 2016, he said, Beijing ramped up its aggressive behavior, building and militarizing more artificial islands in international waters, conducting aggressive maneuvers around Taiwan in recent months and pummeling Philippine ships with water cannons in recent days.
But the biennial exercise, officials say, can send a strong message to China to stop bullying its neighbors. RIMPAC nations this year will practice targeting the decommissioned assault ship USS Tarawa, in a rare chance to learn how effective their weapons are at sinking a large and protected adversary in open waters.
“They’re not just going to be facing the United States in the country they’re targeting, but they’re potentially going to have to deal with a response from a wide range of countries that have common interests in deterring and confronting Chinese aggression as threats to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Garlauskas said.
Israel’s inclusion this year sparked calls from pro-Palestinian activists wanting countries to skip the exercise in protest. Malaysia’s prime minister addressed the protesters ahead of the exercises, saying that while his country would continue to speak out in support of the Palestinian people, Malaysia needed to act in a way that was “not driven by anger,” while also considering the practical implications of missing the major military exercise.
RIMPAC is set to end in early August.
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