The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday that it has been forced to halt the use of President Joe Biden’s $320 million pier in Gaza because it has fallen apart.
Sabrina Singh, the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary, said at a press conference that the pier was “damaged and sections of the pier need rebuilding and repairing.”
She blamed the failure of the controversial project on “a perfect storm of high sea states” and “this North African weather system also came in at the same time.”
The U.S. Military will remove the pier from Gaza and bring it to Israel so it can be fixed and reconstructed, which is expected to take at least a week.
“I believe most of our soldiers were able to remain on the vessels and still are currently on them,” Singh claimed at the press confernce. “And … within the next 24 or 48 hours, the Israeli Navy will be helping push those…
