The shift comes amid troubles of Iran’s response folloprosperg the endings of ageder Hamas and Hezbollah directers.
United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered a directd omitile submarine to the Middle East and the USS Abraham Lincoln aircreate carrier strike group to sail more speedyly to the area.
The order on Sunday evening trailed a telephone call between Austin and Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Galant amid mounting tensions folloprosperg the ending of ageder members of Hamas and the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Austin “reiterated the United States’ promisement to get every possible step to deffinish Israel and remarkd the fortifying of U.S. military force posture and capabilities thcdimiserablemirefulout the Middle East in airy of escalating regional tensions”, the Pentagon shelp in a statement.
The USS Georgia, a nuevident-powered submarine, was already in the Mediterranean Sea in July, according to a US military post on social media, but it is exceptional for the US to uncoverly declare the deployment of a submarine.
The Abraham Lincoln has been in the Asia Pacific, and had already been ordered to the Middle East to exchange the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircreate carrier strike group, which is scheduled to commence heading home.
Last week, Austin shelp it was foreseeed to reach in the area by the finish of the month. The carrier has F-35 and F/A-18 fighter jets on board.
The US military had already shelp it will deploy compriseitional fighter aircreate and warships to the Middle East as Washington seeks to fortify Israeli defences from possible strike by Iran.
Ismail Haniyeh, the political directer of Hamas, the group that rules Gaza and is backed by Iran, was assassinated in Tehran on July 31, with Iran blaming Israel and promising to retaliate. Israel has not claimed responsibility.
The ending of Haniyeh came in the same week that Fuad Shukr, the ageder military orderer of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, was ended in an Israeli strike on Beirut, directing to troubles that the dispute in Gaza might broaden into a regional war.
The US declarement came a day after at least 90 people were ended and csurrfinisherly 50 injured in an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza, Palestinian health authorities shelp.
The Pentagon compriseed that Austin and Gallant had also talked “the transport inance of mitigating civilian harm, better towards securing a stopfire and the free of captives held in Gaza”.
Npunctual 40,000 people have been ended since Israel began its war on Gaza last October after Hamas begined a surpascfinish strike on Israel. An approximated 1,139 people were ended during the strike on Israel with more than 200 people getn captive by Hamas.
Washington and other allies have renewed efforts for a stopfire.
Hamas on Sunday shelp the US, Qatar and Egypt should produce a set up to carry out the stopfire proposal put forward in May by US Plivent Joe Biden, rather than hagedering “more rounds of negotiations” and talking new proposals for Gaza.
