Relief agencies question the motives behind the “American Port” proposal in Gaza. Doctors Without Borders believed that the United States’ intention to establish a temporary seaport in the Gaza Strip for humanitarian purposes is “an attempt to obscure the real problem, which is the Israeli blockade imposed on the Strip” US President Joe Biden announced during his State of the Union address last Thursday that he had issued instructions to the US army to established a temporary port on the Gaza coast.

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, denounced the American proposal as “malicious”