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<div class="gmail-inner-article-top"><h1 class="gmail-">US army aided Israel in bloody military op launched from Gaza 'Aid Pier'</h1><p class="gmail-">The
operation saw the mass killing of over 200 Palestinians, with health
officials describing the inside of Al-Aqsa Hospital as a
'slaughterhouse'</p><div class="gmail-another-name"><p><a href="https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9" style="color:rgb(164,4,4)">News Desk</a></p></div><div class="gmail-another-name" style="margin-top:16px"><p><span>JUN 8, 2024 -<font size="1"> </font></span><font size="1"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/us-army-aided-israel-in-bloody-military-op-launched-from-gaza-aid-pier">https://thecradle.co/articles/us-army-aided-israel-in-bloody-military-op-launched-from-gaza-aid-pier</a></font></p></div></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-img"><img src="http://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/f3812474-259a-11ef-929b-00163e02c055.jpeg" alt="" width="408" height="230" style="margin-right: 0px;"><span>(Photo Credit: US Central Command via AP)</span></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-content"><div class="gmail-row"><div class="gmail-col-md-8 gmail-col-sm-7"><div class="gmail-article-content"><span><p>A
video shared widely by Hebrew Telegram channels on 8 June shows that
the Israeli army made use of the US-built pier installed in central Gaza
as part of a bloody rescue operation that saw the killing of at least
210 Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp.</p><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:550px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div> <p>Furthermore, according to Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, a special US military unit <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/hostage-recovery-fusion-cell-established">specialized</a> in rescuing captives “supported the effort” that decimated the Nuseirat camp.</p><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:550px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div> <p>Multiple
Israeli media outlets reported on Saturday afternoon that a special
forces unit penetrated deep into the Nuseirat camp to recover four
living captives amid heavy bombing by Israeli warplanes.</p><p>They were
then flown out of Gaza via the US-built pier, which had been
reinstalled on the coast on Friday after undergoing tens of millions in
repairs.</p><p>On Saturday, the Israeli army <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-805419#805419">announced</a> that it has started “securing the coastal area of the US military's Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) pier in Gaza.”</p><p>Upon
announcing the project earlier this year, Washington stated that the
floating pier was built to serve as a “maritime corridor” to deliver
desperately needed aid into Gaza.</p><p>“I’m directing the US military
to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier on the Gaza
coast in the Mediterranean. This pier will facilitate the arrival of
large ships loaded with food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters,”
US President Joe Biden said earlier this year when announcing plans for
the pier, purportedly to make up for an Israeli blockade of all land
crossings into the besieged enclave.</p><p>Nevertheless, the Palestinian resistance repeatedly warned that the floating pier was built to deliver weapons to Israel.</p><p>“The
pier is intended to provide cover for Washington’s support for the
occupation state with weapons … International and regional talk about
introducing aid has had no real impact on the famine in the strip,”
Hamas said last month.</p><p><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/the-gaza-aid-pier-a-us-geopolitical-ploy"><i>The Cradle</i></a>
columnist Suat Delgen recently questioned whether the US-built pier is
meant to serve as a “smokescreen for political maneuvers.”</p><p>“The
suspicion is that the project, while ostensibly ‘facilitating’ aid
delivery, might also allow for increased control over the entirety of
Gaza under the guise of humanitarian assistance. This control could
potentially streamline Israel’s military operations and fortify its
strategic positions within Gaza, ultimately influencing the broader
geopolitical dynamics of the conflict.”</p></span></div></div></div></div>
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