 the u.s military-built pier to carry humanitarian aid to gaza will be dismantled and brought home ending a mission that has been fraught with repeated weather and security problems that limited how much food and other supplies could get to starving palestinians critics called it a 230 million dollar boondoggle that failed to bring the level of aid needed the u.s military however is maintained it served as the best hope as aid only trickled in during a critical time of near famine in gaza and that it got close to 20 million pounds of desperately needed supplies to palestinians