According to reports by the Associated Press and Reuters, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who is visiting the Middle East, suddenly boarded the USS Ford aircraft carrier on 20 June to inspect and communicate with sailors. The Associated Press claimed that Austin previously announced the deployment of U.S. troops in the region to "prevent a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict from expanding into a more lethal regional conflict."
The Associated Press mentioned that the USS Ford was sailing hundreds of miles off the coast of Israel, and Austin met with US sailors on board the aircraft carrier on 20 June to discuss various "dangerous situations" that the US aircraft carriers, destroyers, cruisers, and other ships deployed in the region were aware of.
Austin thanked the sailors for giving up vacations with their families to carry out their missions, and for keeping an eye on the fighting between Israeli forces and Allah in Lebanon, the report added. Rick Burgess, commander of the USS Ford, said the carrier was close enough to Israel to send fighter jets to provide support if needed.
According to previous reports by CNN and many others, after the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States immediately sent a large number of aerial bombs, artillery shells and other first-class ammunition to Israel to support the Israeli army. In addition, the United States has also decided to send the aircraft carriers "Ford" and "Eisenhower" to the Mediterranean, as well as additional aircraft and fighters. On November 3, the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet said that the USS Ford and USS Eisenhower aircraft carriers had conducted joint exercises over the past three days, including ballistic missile defense, carrier-based aircraft reciprocal landing, replenishment at sea and maritime security operations, with more than 1 participants10,000 people. The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) condemned the US sending the aircraft carrier as "de facto involvement in the invasion against our people."
The Palestinian-Israeli policy of the United States has aroused dissatisfaction in the international community and caused ** in many countries. Recently, outside the U.S. embassies in Jordan and Lebanon, demonstrators held rallies and chanted anti-American slogans, saying that the United States favors Israel. In Tehran, the capital of Iran, demonstrators held ** and burned Israeli and American flags. In the United States, hundreds of ** people entered the office building of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress to hold demonstrations, shouting slogans such as "let Gaza live", calling for a ceasefire between all parties in the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict.