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Heavy seas batter US Gaza maritime aid mission, says CENTCOM
2024-05-26
[GEO.TV] Heavy seas battered the U.S. maritime humanitarian mission to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 on Saturday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said, with four vessels serving a floating aid delivery pier breaking free from their moorings.

No injuries were reported and the aid pier remains fully functional, CENTCOM said in a statement, adding that no US personnel would enter Gaza.

Two of the affected vessels were now anchored on the beach near the pier and the other two were beached on the coast of Israel near Ashkelon, CENTCOM said, adding that efforts to recover the vessels were under way with assistance from the Israeli Navy.
The Times of Israel adds:
One of the ships got stuck on a beach at the southern end of Ashdod, and another ship sent to extract the stuck vessel also got beached.

The other two vessels washed up on a beach near the pier, the statement said, adding that efforts to recover the vessels were underway with assistance from the Israeli Navy.
Courtesy of NoMoreBS, more from Red State:
Nothing about this mission has been thought through. An absence of heavy-lift ships on the East Coast meant that small Army ships spent over a month in a trans-Atlantic crossing, roughly going the same speed as Christopher Columbus' fleet. We now know that none of the aid pushed over the pier has reached Gaza civilians. To top it off, our humanitarian mission has come under attack from the people we are trying to help.

Now, the final promise has been broken, that of no "boots on the ground" in Gaza — even if the boots belonged to US military personnel walking away from a shipwreck.
Related:
Floating pier 05/25/2024 In Biden call, Egypt’s Sissi agrees to release Gaza aid via Israel amid Rafah closure
Floating pier 05/25/2024 UN says only 906 aid truckloads reached Gaza since Israel's Rafah operation began
Floating pier 05/24/2024 $320 Million Mistake-Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population

Posted by:Fred

#14  the people*
They do appear to be featherless bipeds.

As for the floating pier clusterfoo, it is indeed a grand failure. But think of it as good practice for next time when we may need to do it for real. At least we will have our pronouns in order.
Posted by: SteveS   2024-05-26 13:05  

#13  our humanitarian mission has come under attack from the people* we are trying to help.

*Assume makes an ass of you and me
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-26 12:54  

#12  They said 5-7 ft seas and 10knot winds.

Perfect for windsurfing.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-05-26 12:54  

#11  ... our humanitarian mission has come under attack from the people we are trying to help.
Posted by: Angealing+B.+Hayes4677   2024-05-26 12:47  

#10  Heavy seas? It’s the sodding Mediterranean, and the shallow end at that.

4000 years of documented history of being on the slosh end of a sluice in a shallow sea which means pop up storms this time of year where IIRC rowing vessels would have three anchors was standard procedure to keep them from being blown into to shore.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-05-26 12:43  

#9  They said 5-7 ft seas and 10knot winds.
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-05-26 12:40  

#8  Sounds like the American Mulberry in Normandy.

Mulberry "A"
The Mulberry harbour assembled on Omaha Beach at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer was for use by the American invasion forces. Mulberry "A" (American) was not as securely anchored to the sea bed as Mulberry "B" had been by the British, resulting in such severe damage during the Channel storm of June 19, 1944 that it was considered to be irreparable and its further assembly ceased,[12] It was commanded by Augustus Dayton Clark. - wiki
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-05-26 09:59  

#7  US said to oppose IAEA resolution condemning Iran’s ‘unprecedented’ nuclear breaches
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-26 08:48  

#6  Good thing they don't WAR when there's heavy seas.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-05-26 08:39  

#5  No doubt the Gazookians will see this as divine intervention.

I doubt Brandon can take the hint.
Posted by: Bobby   2024-05-26 08:15  

#4  U.S. Army Vessels Beached as Heavy Seas Hit Gaza Aid Deliveries

Report: Biden to Allow Hamas-linked Contractor to Participate in Gaza Pier
Posted by: Gromble Cholutch9257   2024-05-26 08:07  

#3  No no no, you don't use that pier to get food in, you use it to get the terrorists OUT.


Off they go to their new homes. They cannot live in Gaza. In 10-20 years Gaza will be a showpiece resort of highrises, amusement parks and NO Muslims.
Posted by: Cromonter Spawn of the Faeries8107   2024-05-26 04:09  

#2  Heavy seas? It’s the sodding Mediterranean, and the shallow end at that.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2024-05-26 02:10  

#1  Be grateful that IDF was there to keep Gazooks from killing your shipwrecked sailors.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-26 01:05  

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