Israel does not want to let Gaza to receive a significant volume of humanitarian aid. Even though there is no connection between enforcing a genocidal starvation and ensuring the return of captives', even its settler society has been documented as claiming that Palestinians in Gaza do not deserve aid until all Israeli hostages are freed. That is, aside from the reality that the hostages will starve to death if Gaza goes hungry.  

Reaction of world community to Israeli genocide

The world community has shown adept at turning genocide into a spectacle in the guise of humanitarian relief. Israel killed Palestinians scurrying for minimal food supplies and burned relief trucks. Humanitarian airdrops were tried by the US and Jordan; some of the drops ended up in the sea. Another airdropped pallet of food killed Palestinians when the parachute failed to open. Not only was aid wasted, but the food was only enough for a relatively few thousand Palestinians when all of Gaza is starving. 

Planned genocide

On the shores of Gaza, it plans to construct a floating pier that will be used to deliver supplies from ships into the enclave. The pier will be built by US forces. It seems like there has never been a simpler way to militarize help. And never more elaborated on the humanitarian front. It may take up to sixty days to build the pier, and General Frank S. Besson of the USAV has already sailed with the required gear. According to remarks made by President Joe Biden, "the Israeli government will maintain security at the pier" and the US will send out 1,000 troops to build the 550-meter-long pier. This is not exactly a consoling thought. Instead, it's an assurance that Palestinians will continue to starve to death in Israel's planned genocide. 

UNRWA on US aid plan

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) mellowed its criticism of the US plan for aid delivery. “Any effort to bring in more humanitarian aid into Gaza to help the desperate people is absolutely welcome,” said Director of Communications Juliette Touma, while noting that road deliveries of humanitarian aid would be more efficient. The statement is overly careful not to upset Israel and the US, while also patronizing the Palestinian people. If UNRWA’s preoccupation with neutrality was not its prime objective when issuing statements, the US plan would have encountered a principled objection. Trying to appease Israel will not soften the occupation state’s plans for UNRWA’s closure, as the Times of Israel reported a few days ago on the Israeli army's plan to replace the agency with an alternative such as the UN World Food Program. Which once again shows that the UN finds nothing contradictory about working with human rights violators to safeguard human rights. 

Conclusion

The floating pier for humanitarian aid is a waste of time, not a welcome effort. What the pier will be used for, if any ulterior motives are set in store, remains to be seen. The apartheid state’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz had spoken of building an artificial island off Gaza’s coast to facilitate the Palestinian people’s forced displacement from the enclave. Any humanitarian gesture by the US to which Israel has no real objection, like this pier, should thus ring alarm bells. According to Jordanian military and strategic affairs expert Hisham Khreisat, “The floating port off the shores of Gaza is a humanitarian facade hiding voluntary migration to Europe.” Take aid in; take Palestinians out. Humanitarian aid is a genocidal tool in the hands of Israel and the US.