US Army Finally Has 'Boots on the Ground' in Gaza in the Most Humiliating Way Possible

By streiff | 12:22 PM on May 25, 2024

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U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces emplace the Trident Pier on the Gaza coast, May 16, 2024. The temporary pier, part of the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore capability, will enable the maritime delivery of international humanitarian aid to the United Nations in Gaza for distribution to Palestinian people in need. (Credit/Courtesy: DOD)

The US floating pier allegedly used to provide relief supplies to Gaza civilians has partially washed away, and two boats used to service it have been washed ashore. According to reports, the Army was temporarily relocating the floating pier to the Israeli port of Ashdod because of heavy wave action. During the move, a segment of the pier came free, and the boats sent to retrieve it went aground.

A U.S. army landing craft along with a piece of the floating Gaza pier are currently stuck on an Israeli beach. pic.twitter.com/ytUnuFLFgw
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) May 25, 2024

Part of the US floating pier built on the shores of Gaza has collapsed & broken off.

The waves carried it to the Israeli shores of Ashdod.

I just love how @JoeBiden and the US government keeps finding new and exciting ways to waste our fucking money.#MAGA2024 pic.twitter.com/fslOjNbFp3
— Banana Republic Citizen (@patriotborn000) May 25, 2024

Two US Navy ships ran aground on a beach in Ashdod. The tug boat was transporting the floating pier off of Gaza back to the port of Ashdod due to poor sea conditions when it got disconnected & beached here. LCM went in for rescue and also got beached pic.twitter.com/B6HU1B9nfa
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) May 25, 2024

Part of the floating humanitarian pier in #Gaza detached from the main structure and drifted towards the Ashdod coast in #Israel due to high winds and rough seas. pic.twitter.com/Leco5cu4Cb
— ConflictLive 💬 (@conflict_live) May 25, 2024

The Israeli Navy is leading the recovery operation.

Nothing about this mission has been thought through. An absence of heavy-lift ships on the East Coast meant that small Army ships spent over a month in a trans-Atlantic crossing, roughly going the same speed as Christopher Columbus' fleet. We now know that none of the aid pushed over the pier has reached Gaza civilians. To top it off, our humanitarian mission has come under attack from the people we are trying to help.

Now, the final promise has been broken, that of no "boots on the ground" in Gaza — even if the boots belonged to US military personnel walking away from a shipwreck.

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