GENEVA
— In a statement on Friday, Medicin Sans Frontieres/
Doctors Without Borders
(MSF) executive director Arvil Benoit stated that “The US plan for a temporary
pier in Gaza to increase the
flow of humanitarian aid is a glaring distraction
from the real problem: Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate military
campaign and punishing siege.”
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The
statement comes after an announcement from
US President Joe Biden on March 7
for the US military to build a temporary pier on the coast of Gaza in the
Mediterranean Sea to help deliver humanitarian aid.
Access roads already exist
Benoit
added, “The food, water, and medical supplies so desperately needed by people
in Gaza are sitting just across the border. Israel needs to facilitate rather
than block the flow of supplies. This is not a logistics problem; it is a
political problem. Rather than look to the
US military to build a workaround,
the US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using the roads and entry
points that already exist.”
There is no time
Moreover,
in a statement to Al-Jazeera on Friday, Jason Lee, country director for Save
the Children for the occupied territory added “
Children in Gaza cannot wait to
eat. They are already dying from malnutrition, and saving their lives is a
matter of hours or days — not weeks,” regarding the time it would take for the
US to build the temporary pier.
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