USAid staff were concerned that pier, which cost $230m and operated for only 20 days, would undermine efforts to push Israel to open land borders to aidMiddle East crisis – live updatesPresident Joe Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza earlier this year even as some staffers for the US Agency for International Development (USAid) expressed concerns that the effort would be difficult to pull off and undercut the effort to persuade Israel to open “more efficient” land crossings, according to a USAid inspector general report.Biden announced plans to use the temporary pier in his State of the Union address in March to hasten the delivery of aid to the Palestinian territory besieged by war between Israel and Hamas. Continue reading…
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Biden ordered Gaza pier to be built despite concerns from US development agency
