On Saturday, four US naval vessels supporting a “floating dock” in the Gaza Strip lost their moorings and ran aground, with two of them washing up on the Israeli coast.
U.S. soldiers were forced to land on a beach near Ashdod, Israel, to rescue the ship, which was hit by bad weather and high waves.
Israelis look on as US soldiers help support a stranded warship on a beach in the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod on May 25, 2024. The US military said four of its ships had run aground in rough seas while supporting a temporary jetty built to deliver aid to Gaza by sea. (Oren Ziv/AFP) (Oren Ziv/AFP via Getty Images)
of Navy Times report:
Four U.S. naval vessels supporting a maritime humanitarian aid mission in the Gaza Strip left their moorings on Saturday due to rough weather at sea, U.S. Central Command said.
Two of the boats are anchored on a beach near a floating dock off the Gaza coast, while the third and fourth are stranded off the Israeli coast near the coastal city of Ashkelon, about eight miles north of the Gaza Strip.
Central Command said there had been no reports of injuries and that the US-built pier was fully operational, adding that US military personnel were not entering the Gaza Strip.
A video showing the efforts to free the vessel was posted online.
US landing craft LCM 8558 and a tug boat on the shores of Ashdod on day two. The tug boat is often referred to as part of the pontoon, but is actually a type of vessel that helps move the pontoon. While transporting the pontoon to Ashdod, the tug boat became dislodged due to violent rocking… pic.twitter.com/NHwWBUCu16
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) May 26, 2024
President Joe Biden promised in his State of the Union address that he would not send “ground troops” to assist the pier.
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