Bernie Sanders has welcomed Biden’s decision to establish a port to deliver aid to Gaza and called it a “necessary step”.
But in a statement, he lamented the fact that American taxpayers are having to “pay even more to build a port to get aid into starving people, because Israel won’t let it be driven safely and efficiently across the border”.
“Despite months of increasingly urgent requests from the very highest officials in the US government, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his extreme, right-wing government have refused to let in sufficient humanitarian aid,” he said.
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U.S. President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union address that the U.S. military will build a temporary port in Gaza for the delivery of additional humanitarian aid to civilians, senior U.S. administration officials said Thursday.
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The official added that the project, "the main feature of which is a temporary pier," is expected to become operational in "a number of weeks," at which time it "will provide the capacity for hundreds of additional truckloads of assistance each day."
U.S. forces involved in the mission "are either already in the region or will begin to move there soon," the official said.