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China Has Up To 6 Warships In Mideast Waters As US Carrier Group Moves Closer To Israel

by mosesman

  • China Has Up To 6 Warships In Mideast Waters As US Carrier Group Moves Closer To Israel
    by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
    Israel’s military has announced Saturday that it drastically stepped up airstrikes in preparation for its “next stage” of the operation against Gaza, in a statement many see as portending an imminent ground invasion.
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    “We need to enter under the best possible conditions and this is what we are doing now, as the next stage of war approaches,”     IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari explained after confirming, “from today, we are increasing the strikes and minimizing the danger.”
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    “We will narrow the risks to our forces over the next stages. This is why we have once again urged residents of Gaza to keep moving south,” he added, in words that Israeli media also took to mean a ground assault is about to happen.
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    Worrisomely other major global powers are bolstering their presence, particularly ones which have of late issued severe criticisms of Israel’s largescale aerial assault on Gaza (namely Russia and China), which has killed thousands of civilians – many women and children among them. Russia has been operating jet patrols over Syria, and importantly China now has additional warships in the Mideast region.
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    Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post has confirmed that up to six Chinese warships have been in Middle East waters over the last week. “The 44th naval escort task force has been involved in routine operations in the area since May and last week spent several days on a visit to Oman, including a joint exercise with the country’s navy, according to the Chinese defense ministry website,” the report says.
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Xinhua via AP

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