The Biden administration will soon permanently shut down the star-crossed $230 million temporary pier that the U.S. military built to rush humanitarian aid to Gaza, American officials said on Thursday.
“I do anticipate that in relatively short order, we will wind down pier operations,” Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, told reporters.
On Wednesday, personnel from the military’s Central Command attempted and failed to reattach the makeshift pier to the beach in Gaza after rough seas forced operators to remove the structure several days ago to avoid damage, the Pentagon said.
In a statement, Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said the latest effort to re-anchor the pier failed because of “technical and weather-related issues,” recurring problems that The New York Times identified last month when it reported that military officials had warned aid organizations that the project could be dismantled as early as July.
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@LlamaDaveGreen2yrs2Y
Could have built each refugee family a house for what that pier cost.
@L3ftWingNarwhalMountain2yrs2Y
Not at government prices. A hotel room at a military base costs 120k just to renovate, and that was 15 years ago when I was working on a base.
I doubt the pier cost more than a million dollars. That 230 million went to government officials and their friends.
U.S. taxpayers paid $230 million for it.
It was working for a total of 21 days.
@ZestfulAmnestySocialist2yrs2Y
Throwing $230 million into the ocean would have been better spent than this.
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