{"id":1928,"date":"2023-10-15T07:37:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T07:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/business\/us-sends-second-aircraft-carrier-as-israel-prepares-offensive-on-gaza\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:13:04","slug":"us-sends-second-aircraft-carrier-as-israel-prepares-offensive-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"US sends second aircraft carrier as Israel prepares offensive on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\">Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"signUpIframe\" class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=8f78ed3e-0471-4bdf-b49f-54e4d614b2af\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The US is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean in a bid to ease tensions in the region as Israel prepares a ground offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and many of its Palestinian citizens flee southward.<\/p>\n<p>Washington announced earlier this week it would send a carrier strike group led by the USS Gerald R Ford to the region. On Saturday night US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said he was also sending a group led by the USS Dwight D Eisenhower \u201cas part of our effort to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward\u00a0widening this war following Hamas\u2019s attack on Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment is the latest evidence of global powers\u2019 fears that the Israel-Hamas conflict could turn into a broader regional conflagration.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as Israel accused Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, of preventing the southward flight of civilian convoys ahead of its expected assault into the densely populated north of the enclave.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s military said on Sunday that it plans to conduct \u201cenhanced operations\u201d against the militant group in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas has issued warnings to their civilians not to evacuate, and when people didn\u2019t listen to those warnings of Hamas, they have actually stopped civilians and they have stopped convoys of Gazan civilians trying to flee,\u201d Jonathan Conricus, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman, said on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Israel called up 360,000 military reservists and laid siege to the enclave, cutting off power, fuel and fresh water after devastating cross-border attacks on its civilians and soldiers by Palestinian gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Israel warned 1.1mn people, or nearly half of Gaza\u2019s population, to move south from Gaza City and other northern parts of the territory, resulting in one of the largest displacements of Palestinians in years.<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish state faces growing international calls to spare the lives of Gaza civilians uprooted from their homes amid worsening humanitarian conditions, including from western countries that have also voiced support for Israel\u2019s right to defend itself.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian civilians have suffered heavily during Israel\u2019s past military escalations against Hamas. Border crossings from Gaza into Israel have been closed since the October 7 attacks, and the crossing from the enclave into Egypt via Rafah remains largely closed, leaving most civilians with no option but to flee south.<\/p>\n<p>According to video footage verified by the Financial Times, a convoy of vehicles heading towards southern Gaza on Salah-al-Din street, the enclave\u2019s main north-south road, was struck on Friday by at least two explosions, killing at least a dozen people, including children, leading to accusations by Palestinians that Israel had targeted civilians.<\/p>\n<p>However, Conricus said on Sunday that the IDF \u201cdid not target purposely in that area\u201d. \u201cThere was no targeting of vehicles, there was no targeting of civilians specifically because we want\u00a0\u2014 we don\u2019t target civilians anyhow \u2014 but specifically because we wanted people to go south, so it makes no sense for the IDF to have done it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Conricus said the bombardment of the convoy \u201cmay have been some kind of freak accident, which I doubt\u201d. The FT has not independently verified the Israeli military spokesman\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night militant groups fired rockets from Gaza into Tel Aviv and southern Israel, with no casualties reported. Israel bombarded what it said were military targets in Gaza overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s worst war in years sparked a round of weekend diplomacy as the international community sought to apply pressure on Tel Aviv, Hamas and other actors to exercise restraint.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday US President Joe Biden spoke to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, the self-ruling entity that controls parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in which he condemned Hamas\u2019s \u201cbrutal attack on Israel\u201d and briefed him on \u201cefforts to bring urgently needed humanitarian assistance to Palestinian people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuation efforts for international civilians are continuing in both Israel and Gaza. The US embassy in Israel said it was sending a ship to Haifa to evacuate US nationals. Western nations are also trying to secure safe passage for their citizens in Gaza through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s attack by Hamas and other Gaza-based militants killed more than 1,400 people in Israel, mostly civilians. At least 2,215 people have been killed in Gaza, including many women and children. Israel said on Saturday that it had identified 120 hostages who were abducted by Palestinian gunmen during the incursion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Samer al-Atrush in Dubai<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8f78ed3e-0471-4bdf-b49f-54e4d614b2af\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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