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Britain will send surveillance aircraft, two Royal Navy support ships and about 100 Royal Marines to the eastern Mediterranean from Friday to support Israel and help prevent any sudden escalation of fighting in the Middle East.

Patrol flights of Poseidon P-8 aircraft and other planes will begin on Friday, Downing St announced, tasked partly with monitoring any efforts to transfer of weapons from countries such as Iran or Russia to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Existing UK military units and fighter aircraft, based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, are also on alert as Israel gears up for an expected ground assault on Gaza after last Saturday’s surprise attack by Hamas, which has left more than 1,300 Israeli civilians dead. The death toll in Gaza has risen above 1,400.

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[–] NewDark@lemmings.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How much more do they need against a cornered population? Jesus fucking Christ dude.

[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

The entire purpose is to serve as a deterrent against a larger escalation with Hezbollah or Iran. It is highly unlikely that any non-Israeli forces will take part in actual combat or even support roles.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

400K people intentionally blocked from any aid or humanitarian corridor. It's sickening. What's the objective here? Who can be most evil and lower the bar furthest?

1.1M people in Gaza have been advised and given a day to get south, however they figure that out. A number of people hard to imagine are about to die.

[–] drdalek13@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Help prevent any sudden escalation of fighting"

It's clear Israel was waiting for an excuse to wipe Gaza off the map.

(I do not condone the Hamas attacks, nor do I condone the response from Israel)

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Are we the baddies?

[–] steebo_jack@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's all just park our battle ships right off the coast here...nothing bad can happen right?

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Happy im not the only one on this line of reasoning

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So when this is studied in school for the beginnings of ww3 do we blame russia and the wests lack of commitment to stop russia which emboldened hezzabola?

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, and the Wagner coup in Niger will be a big part of the next phase, but that front is just beginning. North Korea will open up the Asian front and then China will make a move on Taiwan. Iran has successfully sparked the middle eastern front by using its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah(Wagner in Syria) and that will continue to escalate.

Russia has been planning this for a long time, and it wasn't quite time, but all the pieces are in place.

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm waiting for a carrier to get hit. Drawing naval forces into an area surrounded by land and hostile forces, where it has been proven multiple times (including in US War games) that low tech means in high numbers can overwhelm high tech. I feel this is a ploy to take a carrier out, and a second is heading in too.