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US plans for Gaza aid pier branded ‘smokescreen’ to allow Israeli invasion of Rafah (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Yes, building floating piers and bridges are basic Army functions and the US military has been doing it for hundreds of years since inception, literally back to the Revolutionary war.

Yes, the same roads the IDF uses will connect to the pier, and they will use trucks to distribute the supplies, obviously. How else would they do it? What other roads would they use?

Yes, it has been seven weeks of a plan they said would take at least eight weeks.

Man, you really should approach your news diet more rationally.

[-] Sami@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

The same roads they can use to let in aid trucks without any of these theatrics. Should the UN officials also "approach their news diet more rationally"? Please realize that outside of your western bubble you are completely isolated in your viewpoints on the ongoing ethnic cleansing.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago

Apolitical UN employees and everyone else should stop reblogging every single unattributed report from Hamas members and sympathizers no matter how sensational and unbelievable the claim is.

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