Euro-Med Monitor calls for an investigation into the use of the US pier for military purposes. According to a US official cited by the US website Axios, a US “hostage cell” backed the Israeli attempts to free the four prisoners who were being held in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli media reported that an Israeli truckcarrying Israeli special forces conducting the operation to retrieve the four detainees departed from the vicinity of the US pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip, under the pretense of carrying humanitarian supplies.According to Israeli Army Radio, “the US hostage cell played a decisive role in freeing the hostages”, with“high-precision American technology that had not been used before in the process of freeing the hostages.” Prior to the incident, video footage of the truck and a Caddy vehicle were released at the time of the breach.

Washington announced it was ready to bring humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip on 17 May by means of its pier, before subsequently announcing the pier to be inoperable a few days later. An investigation should immediately be opened into whether the US pier was used for military purposes and contributed to the killing of Palestinian civilians.