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Source: CCTV News Client

On the 17th local time, a US official said:The US military has decided to completely suspend operations of the temporary floating dock it had previously set up on the coast of the Gaza Strip.He announced that the so-called "mission of transporting humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip" undertaken by this terminal has been completed, and it is planned to transfer it from Gaza to the Israeli port of Ashdod. In the future, the United States will transport supplies to the Gaza Strip through the port of Ashdod.

In the first half of this year, the United States spent more than two months and $230 million to build a temporary floating dock on the central coast of the Gaza Strip, which was put into use on May 17, but with little success. It was also closed several times during this period. According to a report by the US Columbia Broadcasting Corporation on the 16th, this temporary dock will be permanently dismantled.

Previously, the ability of this huge temporary wharf to transport supplies had been questioned.The terminal “has not provided assistance to the Palestinians as promised” and has “been a colossal failure” in aiding civilians.

The Wall Street Journal pointed out that the dock was opened on May 17, but only 10 days later, it fell apart in the wind and waves and was towed away for repairs. It was not until June 8 that it was repaired and reopened, but due to large waves, the dock was closed again on June 9 and reopened the next day. The good times did not last long. On June 14, the US military announced that the dock would be temporarily moved to the Israeli port of Ashdod to protect it from bad weather.

According to the US, the temporary port has received more than 8,100 tons of humanitarian aid. However, some international aid organizations pointed out that most of the aid has not been delivered to the Palestinian people, and the average amount of aid shipped into the Gaza Strip via the temporary port every day is far from the initial goal of the port construction.

Stephen Semler, co-founder of the Institute for Security Policy Reform, recently wrote that the dock is "at least useless to the Palestinians" and essentially provides a "humanitarian cover" for the U.S. government's policy of supporting Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip.