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WASHINGTON -- The U.S.-built temporary pier that has been taking humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians for less than two weeks will be removed from the coast of Gaza to be repaired after getting damaged in rough seas and weather, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

The White House has said strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah both on Sunday and yesterday do not prompt the withdrawal of US military assistance to Israel. Meanwhile, the US has been forced to suspend aid deliveries into Gaza by sea.

The Pentagon is scrambling to recover and repair lost components, as more practical land routes open, rendering the boondoggle pointless.

A U.S.-built temporary floating pier off the Gazan coast to deliver humanitarian aid to the war-stricken people of Gaza has broken apart, the Pentagon says. The Defense Department is working to recover three of four vessels associated with its temporary humanitarian aid pier in Gaza after rough seas caused the motorized sections to run aground, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said a.

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After a US-built aid pier broke apart in heavy seas Tuesday, the trickle of humanitarian aid entering Gaza has slowed even further.

The Pentagon confirmed its $320 million floating pier to Gaza, which President Joe Biden announced with great fanfare during the State of the Union address, has broken into pieces and will be dismantled for at least a week as it is repaired.

The floating dock faced logistical setbacks from its inception, but was finally done in by the weather.

President Biden ordered the U.S. military to build a $320 million floating pier to serve as a provision point for aid to Palestinians in Gaza. And now it's sinking. Of course it's sinking. Truly, is there a better symbol for the Biden administration than the pier that's sinking in waters off Gaza?

A U.S.-built floating platform off the Gaza coast, made for delivering humanitarian aid to Palestinians, is being temporarily removed after it broke apart in heavy seas, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said Tuesday that the pier will be sent to the southern Israeli city of Ashdod for U.S. Central Command…