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CN01_US MILITARY – GAZA PIER HOUSE | 16/03/24 | SUPER HD
March 16, 2024
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Transcript/Script((PLAYBOOK SLUG: US MILITARY – GAZA PIER (TV)
HEADLINE: US Sets Sail to Build Floating Pier for Gaza Aid
TEASER: The U.S. military and others like Jordan and Egypt are airdropping aid to the Gaza Strip
PUBLISHED: 03/15/2023 at 8:18p
BYLINE: Carla Babb
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DATELINE: Pentagon
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ASSIGNING EDITOR: Aru Pande
SCRIPT EDITORS: Page, sb
VIDEO SOURCE (S): Microsoft Teams (interviews), Hinson SOT is DOD
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TRT: 1:47
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[[The United States is sending an Army team to construct a floating pier for aid into Gaza, but as VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb reports, that mission will take weeks to complete.]]
((NARRATOR))
((Courtesy: US Department of Defense))
U.S. military boats are sailing toward Gaza on a humanitarian mission…
Ordered by the president to construct a floating pier...
...offshore, which they will land on the beaches of Gaza to deliver aid from ships.
((Brig. Gen. Brad Hinson, US Army))
“Once constructed and it’s fully mission-capable, we’ll be able to push about 2 million meals a day onto the shore for relief.”
((NARRATOR))
But experts say the process is time consuming and costly.
((Army Col. Myles Caggins (Ret.), New Lines Institute))
“The joint logistics over the shore is a Band-Aid. Really the best way to deliver aid is to bring in trucks.”
((NARRATOR))
But trucks and distribution centers have come under fire …
… leaving Palestinian citizens starving.
((Courtesy: US Department of Defense))
((NARRATOR))
The floating pier will take weeks to arrive and another ten or so days to build.
In the meantime, the U.S. military and other countries like Jordan and Egypt are airdropping aid to the Gaza Strip.
But even daily efforts yield just a trickle of relief, with a C-130 cargo plane only able to distribute about the same amount of aid as one truck. ((end courtesy))
Sean McFate, the author of The New Rules of War, says the U.S. airdrops and pier distribution plans are reckless.
((Sean McFate, Syracuse University))
“You don't know if the aid is going to the right people because you have no direct physical control over it, and we know Hamas steals from the people, so it seems to me more like a political stunt in an election year by this administration to say he's, quote, doing something rather than to actually do something.”
((NARRATOR))
As each passing day of the war brings more suffering to the Palestinians.
((CARLA BABB VOA NEWS THE PENTAGON.))
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