On Sunday, an Israeli military analyst reviewed the American interest in the step of establishing a floating port off the Gaza Strip, coinciding with the devastating war on the Strip entering its sixth month.

Military analyst Ron Ben Yishai said, in an editorial in the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, that “the United States has an interest in building a floating naval pier in front of Gaza, for four main reasons.”

Ben Yishai explained the first reason; The sea dock will allow the unloading of large shipments and quantities of humanitarian aid, ten times larger than the quantities currently arriving in Gaza via land trucks.

He continued, saying: "The second reason is that the sea pier off the shores of northern Gaza will fall under relatively Israeli control, and will ensure that aid reaches the relief agency directly, without control from the Hamas movement."

He stated that the third reason is related to the attempt of the administration of US President Joe Biden to please the voters of the Democratic Party, through this step, and to show that the United States is entering aid into the Gaza Strip despite the opposition of the Israeli government, to improve the image of President Biden in the eyes of voters from the progressive wing of his Democratic Party.

The Israeli analyst pointed out that the fourth reason relates to the American administration’s understanding that Netanyahu is a prisoner of the extremist ministers Ben Gvir and Smotrich, and thus Netanyahu is able to justify the introduction of major humanitarian aid, as a direct dictate from Washington.

He explained that the American naval pier off the shores of Gaza is not the only project trying to bring aid across the sea. In the coming days, aid will arrive in Gaza, loaded on small ships in Cyprus, and will be examined by the Israelis.

He pointed out that to bring in large quantities of aid, there is a need for a floating dock, through which it will be possible to unload large quantities of supplies and transport them to the shore very quickly.