The U.S. military had to suspend plans to build a pier off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian supplies due to bad weather, the Pentagon announced Friday.
U.S. Central Command officials said in a statement that they were halting “offshore assembly of floating docks” off the coast of Gaza as strong winds and sea swells created dangerous conditions for soldiers working on the surface of a partially constructed causeway. “It has been temporarily suspended.”
Israel’s “partially constructed pier and the warships involved in its construction will be moved to the port of Ashdod,” where assembly will continue.
As many as 1,000 American military personnel are helping install a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Gaza, a project the Pentagon originally estimated would cost $320 million.
The structure, announced during President Biden’s State of the Union address in March, will consist of an 1,800-foot-long causeway that will connect to the coast and allow the U.S. government and its partners to provide more humanitarian assistance to civilians. It is intended to help you obtain. territory.
Officials had hoped to complete work on the pier by the end of this week, but dangers at sea could delay it by several days.
Once completed, the pier will initially be able to transport 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Gaza per day, with plans to increase to around 150 trucks per day.
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