Pentagon taps private firm to facilitate Gaza humanitarian port
Defense officials said the temporary causeway will be able to receive some 2 million meals per day, but the effort could take long as 60 days to get up and running, likely too late for many Gazans as starvation sets in in the Palestinian enclave.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has tapped a little-known firm run by former senior defense officials to facilitate a maritime humanitarian corridor ordered by President Joe Biden to surge aid into the Gaza Strip.
Fogbow, an advisory group consisting of former US military, CIA, USAID, and UN officials, is expected work directly with the military, which Biden been tasked with constructing a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza to facilitate aid deliveries by sea, Al-Monitor has learned.
Why it matters: The group’s involvement fills a key gap in the US military’s plans to deliver aid to Gaza’s coast without putting American troops on the ground in the active war zone.
The effort is part of a new policy by the Biden administration to circumvent Israel’s obstruction of the flow of international humanitarian aid into Gaza as starvation sets in among the local population.
