This Sunday, the United States sent an aircraft carrier and destroyers to the eastern Mediterranean to support Israel in the war unleashed with Gaza due to the Hamas attack on Israeli territory.
The Pentagon reported in a statement that it has mobilized the US Navy aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, as well as the guided missile cruiser USS Normandy, as well as the guided missile destroyers Thomas Hudner, USS Ramage, USS Carney and USS Rossevelt.
The Secretary of Defense of the United States, Lloyd Austin, has also announced that Washington will provide the Israeli army with “additional equipment and resources, including ammunition,” between today and the next few days.
“The material support we are rapidly providing to Israel underscores the strong support of the United States to the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli people,” Austin stressed.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, communicated in a call this Sunday to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, that “additional American assistance” for his country was “on the way.”
There are already more than a thousand dead in Israel due to the attack by land, sea and air by the Islamist group Hamas that took the country by surprise on Saturday. It represents a national tragedy for a State that has not suffered so many deaths in just over one day in its entire history, since its creation in 1948, and despite the many armed conflicts experienced.
On the Palestinian side, Israel’s bombing of Gaza has left at least 413 dead and more than 2,300 injured.
