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(NewsNation) — The Pentagon is sending further ships and craft to the Middle East arsenic Israel braces for a imaginable onslaught by Iran and its proxies.
Iran has been threatening to respond to the suspected Israeli assassination of Hamas person Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah commandant Fouad Shukr successful Beirut.
To prepare, the United States has accrued its subject forces successful the Middle East with the question of the USS Abraham Lincoln Strike Group to the portion on with further rocket defenses and a caller combatant squadron. The USS Abraham Lincoln Strike Group volition regenerate the USS Theodore Roosevelt bearer onslaught group, which is successful the Gulf of Oman but scheduled to travel location aboriginal this summer.
On Friday, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “will beryllium directing multiple” unit movements to supply further enactment to Israel and summation extortion for U.S. troops successful the region.
The White House, successful a statement, said President Joe Biden “reaffirmed his committedness to Israel’s information against each threats from Iran, including its proxy violent groups Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.”
Israel has vowed to termination Hamas leaders implicit the group's Oct. 7 onslaught wherever they took 250 radical hostage and killed 1,200, sparking the warfare successful Gaza. Since Oct. 7, astir 40,000 Palestinians successful Gaza person been killed, according to The Associated Press, and overmuch of the colonisation has been displaced aggregate times.
Fears of Iran onslaught increase
It's presently not wide what signifier an Iranian onslaught could instrumentality and whether it could beryllium arsenic important arsenic the April drone and rocket attack, which was mostly intercepted by Israel and its allies.
Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart Sunday, with the Pentagon saying the 2 discussed U.S. unit posture moves to enactment Israel and deescalate tensions successful the region. In addition, Austin expressed beardown enactment for a cease-fire and hostage merchandise woody successful Gaza.
The United States is doing everything imaginable to marque definite that this concern does not boil over, White House lawman nationalist information advisor Jon Finer said successful a Sunday interrogation with ABC.
"Part of what makes back-channel messages and conversations effectual is that they request to enactment private," Finer told ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos. "So I won't talk to the details of the diplomatic enactment that is underway different than to accidental successful adjacent coordination and conjunction with our Israeli allies and different partners and allies successful the region."
An Axios report stated that an onslaught from Iran and Hezbollah against Israel could hap wrong 24 hours, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is acceptable for immoderate scenario.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
