{"id":137297,"date":"2024-03-12T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=137297"},"modified":"2024-03-13T01:07:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T01:07:01","slug":"u-s-ships-leave-virginia-for-gaza-more-equipment-to-flow-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=137297","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Ships Leave Virginia for Gaza, More Equipment to Flow to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>\n    U.S. Army ships are moving to the Eastern Mediterranean to build a pier to supply civilians in Gaza with essential supplies, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said today.\n<\/p>\n<p>The ships will establish a roll-on, roll-off capability that will allow ship-to-shore humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza. &#8220;We expect the pier to be fully operational in approximately 60 days which will be able to facilitate the delivery of about 2 million meals per day,&#8221; Ryder said.<\/p>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The seaborne delivery will complement other means of getting essential supplies to Gazans. The United States is air-dropping food and supplies to Gaza and the U.S. Agency for International Development is working to get land routes open to those who need the supplies. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ryder noted that U.S. Central Command and the Royal Jordanian air force conducted another combined air drop into northern Gaza today. Air Force C-130s dropped more than 5,280 pounds of food including rice, flour, pasta and canned food.<\/p>\n<p>This was the eighth U.S. air drop to Gaza. &#8220;C-130s and their aircrews have dropped over 204,000 meals, 48,000 bottles of water and more than 5000 pounds of food items,&#8221; Ryder said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a separate announcement, Ryder said the United States will send another package of aid of $300 million to Ukraine. This one-time aid through the president drawdown authority will support Ukraine&#8217;s immediate air defense and anti-tank requirements. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be clear, we were able to provide this PDA due to negotiated savings on contracts to replace equipment from previous drawdowns for Ukraine,&#8221; Ryder said. &#8220;As a result of these cost savings, we were able to authorize a new PDA package for Ukraine today without additional significant impacts to U.S. military readiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ryder said the aid does not begin to meet Ukraine&#8217;s needs as Russian forces continue their attacks on the country. &#8220;We urgently need Congress to pass DOD supplemental requests,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Today&#8217;s PDA package, while providing urgent capabilities to Ukraine&#8217;s forces, is nowhere near enough. And the only way to meet Ukraine&#8217;s battlefield needs is for Congress to swiftly pass the supplemental.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Army ships are moving to the Eastern Mediterranean to build a pier to supply civilians in Gaza with essential supplies, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said today. The ships will establish a roll-on, roll-off capability that will allow ship-to-shore humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza. &#8220;We expect the pier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":137299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137300,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137297\/revisions\/137300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}