The JLOTS Pier on the Gaza coast, May 16, 2024. (U.S. Army photo) It was completed (almost) on schedule and “in the nick of time” as aid agencies were running out of food, fuel and critical medical supplies and as military operations in Rafah, where more than 1.4 million Palestinians are sheltering, threatened to disastrously worsen the humanitarian crisis in that unfortunate strip of land. As far as we know, its construction stayed within the $320 million budget. It saw the first trucks carrying humanitarian assistance move ashore into Gaza on May 17. Trucks carry humanitarian aid across the …