The port may not be bringing in emergency provisions, but rather taking Palestinians out in a so-called voluntary exodus. From Anadolu Agency at thecradle.co:
The US claims the port is to facilitate humanitarian aid but could be used to ethnically cleanse Gaza per previously leaked Israeli plans
View of fishing boats at the port of Gaza City, June 13, 2019. (Photo credit: Hassan Jedi/Flash90)
A US military ship set sail on 11 March to travel to the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip to build a temporary port.
However, doubts about US intentions for the port’s construction continue to emerge.
Hisham Khreisat, a Jordanian military and strategic affairs expert, suggested the motivation for building the port was instead to facilitate the deportation of Gaza’s population by ship.
Khreisat told Anadolu Agency that “the floating port off the shores of Gaza is a humanitarian facade hiding voluntary migration to Europe.”
“This military tactical port will receive Israeli approval because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been seeking this idea since the beginning of the war, aiming for the voluntary displacement of Gazans and their [flight] to Europe,” he added.
The White House claims it wishes to build the port to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are at risk of starvation due to Israel’s blockade.
But the BBC noted that the port would take at least 60 days to build and that “charities have said those suffering in Gaza cannot wait that long.”
If the US wished to stave off famine in Gaza, it could simply use its leverage as Israel’s leading supplier of weapons to force Tel Aviv to allow more aid to enter by truck convoys through existing land crossings.
