Как такое вообще стало возможным?

The ship was instead diverted farther north to Haifa Port at Israel’s northernmost tip, from where its cargo somehow had to find its way to its intended recipients. A few days later, Ashdod was looking quiet, with marine traffic websites showing only a few vessels docked at the port or waiting to enter it. Meanwhile, Haifa was having to absorb significant traffic from Ashdod.
Other shipping lines and their insurers are also reviewing the advisability of calling Israeli ports right now due to the conflict. Israeli waters are already in shipping’s highest risk category, and now risk premiums are up by several hundred percent. Israel’s looming ground invasion of Gaza risks making merchant vessels’ journeys to and from Israeli ports even more dangerous and expensive.
That matters
because Israel is highly dependent on imports. As the U.S.
Department of Agriculture noted in a 2022 report, Israel relies almost
exclusively on imports for its consumption of sugar, vegetable oils
and oilseeds, feed, grain, and other raw materials for the food
industry, while its meat industry relies on imports of live
animals. Israel imports almost three times as much food and
agricultural products as it exports. Those goods travel through the
ports of Ashdod and Haifa.
Отсюда
Оказывается, Израиль вовсе не экспортер продовольствия, а вполне
себе импортер, включая зерновые, масличные, сахар и корм для скота.
И война делает страховку для доставки в Израиль дорогой, а в случае
боеых действий в районе потов (Ашдод и Хайфа) Израиль так вообще
может оказаться в блокаде с нехваткой продовольствия. И это в
стране, которая всегда гордилась (не без оснований!) в способности
вырастить что угодно в пустыне.
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