A US ship carrying aid destined for Gaza has left Cyprus, but the temporary floating dock built by the US military does not have enough capacity to unload food and supplies to the region, the Pentagon said on Thursday. This.
Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a news conference Thursday afternoon that while Construction of floating docks and causeways were completed, weather conditions made it unsafe to place them off the Gaza coast.
General Ryder said the aid on the ship named Sagamore will eventually be loaded onto another US motor ship docked at Ashdod port, the Roy P. Benavidez. It will deliver aid to the floating dock system as soon as it is installed and then be delivered to Gaza, he said.
According to VesselFinder, a ship tracking website, the Sagamore appeared to have anchored in the Israeli port of Ashdod late Thursday evening. Currently, aid to the Palestinians is desperately needed, about 20 miles from the nearest Gazan border crossing.
“While I will not provide a specific date, we expect these temporary piers to be in place in the very near future, pending appropriate security and weather conditions,” General Ryder said. .
Israel does prevent the construction of Gaza’s own international seaport, which prompted the United States and another aid group, World Central Kitchento create their own system to bring aid into this land by sea.
However, aid groups and experts frequently criticize maritime efforts as a costly and complicated way of delivering aid, and argue that road transport is a more efficient way to get food in. Gaza. Afterward Israeli airstrike killed 7 World Central Kitchen workers, the group temporarily suspended maritime operations there. Food charity has since said it would restart operations in Gaza with the help of Palestinian aid workers.
More food is needed in Gaza. Director of the World Food Program, Cindy McCain, speak Recently some areas have experienced famine.
