Thursday night, President Joe Biden announced US plans to build a pier in the Mediterranean Sea off Gaza’s coast for delivery of aid. The project, in coordination with the European Union, will open a maritime corridor from Cyprus to Gaza. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, about the plans, and the unmet human needs in Gaza that led the US and European nations to act independently of Israel.
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