Gabe Whisnant
President Joe Biden is facing backlash after a U.S.-built temporary pier on the shores of the Gaza Strip, set up to provide a lifeline to the Palestinian territory, will now be removed for repairs after breaking apart rough seas and weather.
The Pentagon said Tuesday that the $320 million pier, which had only been operating for two weeks, will now be pulled from the beach and sent to Ashdod in southern Israel for repairs.
The pier, located just southwest of Gaza City, is one of the few ways that food and supplies are reaching starving Palestinians amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
"From when it was operational, it was working, and we just had sort of an unfortunate confluence of weather storms that made it inoperable for a bit," Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said. "Hopefully just a little over a week, we should be back up and running."
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