This is ALL political theater. Creating floating piers and opening new entry points 25 miles away from where the people are seems designed to create an illusion that Biden is doing SOMETHING (other than sending more bombs to the IDF).

The Raffa crossing has the capacity to move the aid. This isn't a traffic jam, that can be solved by adding a lane or opening a gate. The backlog is (allegedly) getting shipments inspected, and providing security for the trucks as they travel in Gaza to deliver the aid to the people who need it most. This "solution" will only make those two main problems worse.

The most effective thing the US could do to help is provide manpower and logistics to get the aid truck inspections completed quickly, and help coordinate security (preferably by Arab neutrals, if there is such a thing) to get those trucks safely to distribution points inside Gaza.

#7 Absolutely political theater. War's over. You believe that? Think about it, Open up Erez crossing then back out of southern Gaza. What do you think is going to happen? Northern Gazans start heading home, and toward the incoming aid. Then boom, the war reignites. IDF is already shooting people for just moving around in North Gaza, or moving northward. Looks to me like they are just letting off the pressure to flush them out and draw them northward.