By Suzanne Nuyen on NPY – Thanks to Pam P.
| A vessel carrying aid set sail from Cyprus yesterday toward an American-built floating pier off the coast of Gaza. U.S. officials say the pier will help address the worsening humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave. But aid groups say there are significant unanswered questions — including what difference it would make if Israel keeps land borders closed. |
| 🎧 Aid workers say that what’s lacking isn’t resources or aid but “the political will to get it” into Gaza, NPR’s Jane Arraf reports on Up First. One official called the pier “a joke.” Pediatrician John Kahler, co-Founder of MedGlobal, said what they needed was opening the gates to let food into what he described as a “lab of malnutrition,” not “silly piers or silly airdrops.” Another medical aid official noted that the pier will cost $320 million, which could instead be used to buy a large number of truckloads of aid. |