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US pier no substitute for Rafah crossing: Hamas

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

Sat / 18 May 2024 / 13:16

Hamas emphasized Friday that any way to bring in aid, including the American pier, is no substitute for opening all land crossings under Palestinian supervision.

Tehran -ISNA- In a statement, the movement emphasized its rejection of any military presence of any force in the Palestinian territories, stressing the right of the Palestinian people to receive all the aid they need in light of the catastrophe created by the occupation.

The government media office in Gaza, meanwhile, stressed that the US administration was trying to whitewash its brutality by establishing a pier off the coast of Gaza City.

The media office issued a statement questioning the intentions of the US administration, which is working to manage the genocidal war and form a protective barrier for Israel.

The statement underlined that the pier does not cover the Palestinian people's need for food, and that what it would provide "will not end the famine."

The statement also demanded the immediate opening of land crossings, questioning the practice of using patchwork and partial solutions while circumventing real ones.

The statement emphasized that land crossings were the most feasible and effective way to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip and demanded the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from the Rafah crossing in light of the increasingly tragic humanitarian disaster.

It concluded by underlining that the food insecurity crisis was worsening in the central and southern governorates, especially with the displacement of tens of thousands of people from Rafah as a result of the Israeli invasion of the city.

The US military said aid deliveries began Friday via the pier it alleges is for humanitarian purposes.

"Today at approximately 9 am (0600 GMT), trucks carrying humanitarian assistance began moving ashore via a temporary pier in Gaza," the US Central Command said in a statement, adding that no US troops went ashore.

"This is an ongoing, multinational effort to deliver additional aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza via a maritime corridor that is entirely humanitarian in nature," it claimed.

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