{"id":9646,"date":"2023-10-29T06:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T06:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2023-10-29T06:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T06:24:18","slug":"second-us-aircraft-carrier-to-take-up-position-in-east-mediterranean-to-deter-hostile-actions-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=9646","title":{"rendered":"Second US aircraft carrier to take up position in East Mediterranean to ‘deter hostile actions against Israel’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Air aviation news – The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/a>\u00a0aircraft carrier passed through the straits of Gibraltar on Saturday on its way to the Middle East, according to the ship-tracking service FleetMon.<\/p>\n

The carrier and accompanying vessels will take up a position in the East Mediterranean with the mission of what US Secretary of Defence Lloyd J. Austin\u00a0described\u00a0<\/a>as an effort \u201cto deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following\u00a0Hamas’s attack on Israel<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It will be the second US aircraft carrier in the region, with the USS Gerald Ford recently taking up a position close to Israel.<\/p>\n

Though the US has said that it won\u2019t intervene directly in Israel\u2019s attack on Gaza, it is widely understood that it is bolstering its presence in the region partly as a deterrence against Iran and its proxies from attacking US troops in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0US\u00a0military on Thursday\u00a0struck two facilities in eastern Syria\u00a0<\/a>used by\u00a0Iran’s\u00a0Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups. This was in retaliation for a series of ongoing attacks on US military personnel in Iraq and Syria by forces allegedly aligned with Iran.<\/p>\n

However, the presence of the aircraft carriers so close to Israel in the East Med is almost certainly also aimed at deterring the Iran-backed Lebanese group\u00a0Hezbollah\u00a0<\/a>from opening up a second front as Israel\u2019s attack on Gaza intensifies, with\u00a0ground operations<\/a>\u00a0in the Palestinian enclave now expanding.<\/p>\n

The US is Israel\u2019s biggest ally, providing Israel with an additional $14 billion in military aid since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and Israel responded with indiscriminate strikes on Gaza. It has supplied Tel Aviv with specialist military advisors, while refusing to back a ceasefire despite Israeli airstrikes killing 7,703 people, including over 3000 children.<\/p>\n

source: https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/us-aircraft-carrier-close-east-med-amid-israel-gaza-war<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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