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full screen The large American aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower with accompanying cruisers, destroyers and fighter planes is sent to the eastern Mediterranean. Archive image. Photo: Nicolas Nanev/AP/TT
The United States is sending another group of aircraft carriers to the Eastern Mediterranean with the aim of discouraging other actors from entering the war between Israel and the terror-labeled Hamas, announced US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
The aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower with accompanying cruisers, destroyers and fighter planes joins another aircraft carrier group already stationed in the region after the Hamas terrorist attack just over a week ago.
The expansion signals the United States’ “determination to deter any state or non-state actor that seeks to escalate this war,” Austin said in a statement.