for MSF, the American artificial port is “a charade, a diversion strategy, window dressing”

“A charade, a diversion strategy, smoke and mirrors”this is how Caroline Seguin, MSF deputy emergency manager, describes, Saturday May 18 on franceinfo, the floating port installed off the coast of the Gaza Strip by the Americans.

In addition to the sea routes and air drops used by the international community to circumvent restrictions on access to Gaza, the US military has completed the construction of an artificial port to accommodate aid arriving by boat from Cyprus.

Caroline Seguin explains that this is not enough and that help “is blocked today at the Rafah entry point”. Early last week, the Israeli army entered Rafah and took over the border crossing with Egypt, blocking a major entry point for convoys carrying aid to the population. The MSF deputy emergency manager estimates that “2,000” the number of trucks “who are waiting to return large stocks of humanitarian aid waiting in Egypt today.” For Caroline Seguin, it is therefore a “unhealthy communication strategy which tends to hide the desire to block access to Gaza on the part of the Israelis.”