Talking about biting the hand that feeds. Palestinian terrorists on Wednesday attacked the U.S. pier being constructed off the coast of Gaza, the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported.
Gaza “terrorists launched mortars at the maritime construction site, damaging several pieces of engineering equipment,” the TV channel revealed. ” In addition, one person was slightly injured while running to a protected area.”
The U.S. military is involved in the construction of the floating dock. It is unclear if American servicemen or civilian contractors were present at the site during the terrorist attack.
Last month, President Joe Biden announced the decision to construct a floating pier for large-scale aid delivery to Gaza and supply aid through trucks and airdrops. “I’m directing the US military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters,” President Biden declared on March 7.
The i24NEWS reported:
Gazan terrorists fired mortar shells on Wednesday towards the construction work on the humanitarian pier being built off the coast of Gaza.i24NEWS has learned that several pieces of American engineering equipment were damaged in the attack. In addition, one person was slightly injured while running to a protected area.The United States has been building the floating pier in order to channel additional humanitarian aid that would arrive via sea route. U.S. President Joe Biden announced the plan during his State of the Union address in early March, clarifying that there would be “no U.S. boots on the ground.”The IDF will likely be in charge of ensuring the security of the costly pier, and the distribution of aid that comes through it, although there has not been any official announcement yet about where the aid will be sourced from.
This is not the first time Palestinian terrorists have targeted humanitarian efforts to help the Gazans. In the past, Hamas terrorists have used delivery of food supplies to ambush Israeli troops. Terrorists have repeatedly attacked IDF soldiers, assisting civilians to evacuate the combat zones.
After Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi is now calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign as the IDF gears up to flush out Hamas from its last-standing stronghold of Rafah in southern Gaza.
The former House Speaker described the Israeli Prime Minister as an ‘obstacle to the two-state solution.’ The Biden administration has been working behind the scenes to reward Palestinians with statehood in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre, news reports indicate.
The Biden White House and leading Democrats see Netanyahu as a significant opponent of their policy to appease the Palestinians. Last month, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer called for Netanyahu’s ouster and fresh elections in Israel. Hillary also urged Netanyahu to step down, calling him ‘not a trustworthy leader.’
The British newspaper Telegraph, on Wednesday, reported Pelosi’s remarks:
Nancy Pelosi has called for Benjamin Netanyahu to resign as prime minister of Israel, accusing him of being unable to bring peace to the Gaza conflict.The former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, 84, said that Mr Netanyahu’s “policy and practice” had been “terrible” and that he should stand aside.Speaking to RTE, an Irish broadcaster, on a visit to the country, Ms Pelosi said the number of people who had died in Gaza since Hamas’s attack on October 7 was “too many”.
Amid reports of Israeli military preparations for an assault on Hamas’s last-standing stronghold of Rafah, the IDF is turning up the heat on Palestinian terrorists operating in the rest of the enclave. After a large-scale raid in northern Gaza earlier this week, the Israeli military destroyed a 12-mile-long terror tunnel connecting Hamas fighting forces between north and south.
“The soldiers, in cooperation with the Yahalom Unit and combat engineers, located and destroyed over 20 kilometers of terror tunnels in the corridor area, part of which connected the Gaza Strip from the north to the south underground,” the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday.
Joint operations by the Israeli military and the air force destroyed Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure. “The IDF continues to operate in the central Gaza corridor and over the past day, eliminated terrorists and destroyed terror infrastructure,” the IDF said in a press release Thursday. “Throughout the past day, IAF fighter jets and aircraft struck over 50 targets. Furthermore, an IAF aircraft struck an operational tunnel shaft and additional terror infrastructure in the central Gaza Strip.”
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