US Army soldier injured while working on Gaza pier has died

washington — 

A U.S. Army worker who was injured successful May portion moving connected the American-built pier to present humanitarian assistance to Gaza has died.

Sargeant Quandarius Stanley, 23, was a centrifugal transport relation and was critically injured erstwhile precocious winds and dense seas damaged the pier, causing 4 Army vessels to go beached. Two different work members besides were injured but aboriginal returned to duty.

U.S. subject officials person not provided details connected however precisely Stanley was injured but person noted it was not successful combat. He died past Thursday and had been assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade Expeditionary astatine Joint Base Langley-Eustis successful Virginia.

"Sergeant Quandarius Stanley was an instrumental and good respected first-line person successful the 7th Transportation Brigade Expeditionary (TBX), particularly during the ngo to supply humanitarian assistance to the radical of Gaza. We volition proceed to supply enactment to his household during this hard time," said Colonel John "Eddie" Gray, brigade commander. "Our full portion mourns alongside his family."

Captain Shkeila Milford-Glover, spokesperson for the 3rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, said Stanley had precocious retired and was receiving attraction successful a semipermanent attraction aesculapian center.

The monolithic pier task was hampered by unexpected atrocious upwind and information issues, arsenic good arsenic persistent information issues involving Israeli forces that prompted assistance agencies to halt organisation of the supplies retired of fearfulness of being injured and killed.

The Defense Department formally pulled the pier from the Gaza enactment connected June 28 and declared an extremity successful mid-July to the ngo to bring assistance into the territory besieged by the warfare betwixt Israel and Hamas.

The subject moved astir 20 cardinal pounds of assistance onto the Gaza enactment successful what officials said was the "largest measurement of humanitarian assistance" ever delivered into the Middle East.

But assistance agencies had trouble moving the nutrient brought ashore to areas farther into Gaza wherever it was needed astir due to the fact that humanitarian convoys came nether attack.