President Biden has sent the world crashing down in flames. Now he’s having to make some tough decisions.
And the U.S. military is scrambling after Biden was forced to make this sudden move.
The U.S. Department of Defense announced on Tuesday that it had to cease the use of President Joe Biden’s $320 million pier in Gaza due to structural failure.
Sabrina Singh, the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary, stated at a news briefing 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 send it to Israel for repair and reconstruction, which is estimated 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 conference.
“And … within the next 24 or 48 hours, the Israeli Navy will be helping push those vessels back and hopefully they’ll be fully operational by then.”
On Monday, video emerged of the pier sinking, with a man speaking Hebrew laughing at Biden’s “sinking.”
“It’s simply disconnected and practically swamped,” the man said, according to NBC News.
The announcement comes after two U.S. military vessels ran ashore in Gaza near the pier, while two others washed up on Israeli beaches near Ashkelon over the weekend.
“Efforts to recover the vessels are under way with assistance from the Israeli Navy,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
“The IDF is supporting the recovery efforts near the pier. No U.S. personnel will enter Gaza. No injuries have been reported and the pier remains fully functional.”
The pier has mostly disappointed the administration, which deployed a thousand U.S. service members to open it.
After a week of efforts, just 820 tons of supplies were unloaded from the pier. Approximately one-third of that aid was hijacked and stolen.
Three U.S. service members were injured last week during an operation to transport humanitarian aid into Gaza.
“On May 23, a U.S. service member sustained a non-combat related injury aboard USNS Benavidez (T-AKR 306) while in support of the humanitarian aid mission to Gaza,” a U.S. defense official said.
“The service member was transported to a medical facility and is in critical condition at this time. More information will be provided as it becomes available.”
The other two injured service personnel reportedly suffered minor injuries.
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