The floating pier built by the US military for humanitarian deliveries to Gaza turned out to be nothing but a wasteful boondoggle due to simple “ miscalculations .” “ They just miscalculated..
. They didn’t fully understand what was going to happen with the weather ..
. So the DoD [Department of Defense] walks away, humiliated in a fashion ,” Stephen Morrison, a senior vice-president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was cited as saying by The Guardian . The $230 million-worth project conceived by the Pentagon turned out to be too fragile to handle rough seas and, furthermore, has been plagued by poor security.
Its very future is now in question. The Gaza Pier: Biden’s humanitarian show-off that failed Touted as a symbol of American generosity in President Biden’s State of the Union address, the American floating pier off the Gaza shore is out of service most of the time and fails to replace land routes as a way to..
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com/okgE2XujPM — Sputnik (@SputnikInt) June 19, 2024 It took over two months, 1,000 US troops, and multiple US Navy vessels to construct the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) facility. This consisted of a floating dock deployed at sea and a corresponding pier attached to the Gaza coast. Despite being operational since May 17, the maritime corridor was only functional for just 12 days.
As a result, only 250 truckloads of humanitarian aid have been delivered through the vulnerable pier. Poor security meant that a.