USS Gerald R. Ford leaves the Mediterranean Sea
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will return to its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, the U.S. 6th Fleet said in a statement yesterday.
The ship was one of two groups deployed to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, days after Hamas launched its multipronged attacks on Israel on Oct. 7.
The strike group was “ordered to the eastern Mediterranean to contribute to our regional deterrence and defense posture,” the statement said.
It will return to its home port and prepare for any future deployments, the statement added.
Israel’s aircraft, tanks step up strikes in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces said today its forces had struck a number of militants planning to denotate explosives on IDF troops, as its naval, ground and aerial forces step up its assault in the Gaza Strip.
“IDF troops identified three terrorists in southern Gaza City entering a terrorist compound,” it said in a statement, adding a fighter jet then struck the location.
IDF forces also conducted a raid in the southern city of Khan Younis and located weaponry, it said, in addition to killing dozens of militants around Jabaliya.
NBC News has not verified the claims.
Turkey detains 33 people suspected of spying Israel’s Mossad, state media reports
Turkish authorities have detained 33 people suspected of carrying out espionage for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported Tuesday, adding 13 others were being sought by police.
Anadolu said police had carried out simultaneous raids in 57 locations across eight provinces as part of an investigation that the counter-terrorism bureau of the Istanbul prosecutor’s office had launched.
Without citing sources, it said the suspects were believed to be aiming to identify, monitor, assault and kidnap foreign nationals living in Turkey as part of “international espionage” operations.
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