Pentagon: Technical reasons prevented re-anchoring of Gaza’s floating pier

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Pentagon said today that CENTCOM attempted on Wednesday to re-anchor the floating pier on the Gaza shore but failed due to “technical reasons”.

Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said in a press briefing on Friday that “on Wednesday, US Central Command personnel attempted to re-anchor the temporary pier to the beach in Gaza to resume humanitarian operations. However, due to technical and weather related issues, CENTCOM personnel were unable to re-anchor the pier to the shore.”

“The pier, support vessels, and equipment returned to Ashdod and will remain there for now”, she added. “A re-anchoring date has not yet set at this time.”

Singh noted that 8000 metric tons of humanitarian aid (nearly 530 trucks) have been delivered from the pier to Gaza.

A single truck usually carries about fifteen tons of basic food commodities, which is enough to feed about 3000 people for ten days. This means that, for northern Gaza alone, which has been seeing high rates of deaths from hunger, we need 300 trucks with food per month.

The US pier has been in service only about 10 days. During them it was used in an Israeli-American attack on Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, killing over 70 Palestinians, to find Israeli prisoners. Three Israeli prisoners were killed in the attack.

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