Ready for US forces in Iraq to be deployed to Gaza if necessary
| An American media has reported that some American forces have been ordered to be on alert to be sent to this area in case of US ground intervention in Israel's war in Gaza. |
According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Intercept base It is claimed to have obtained a document that shows that some American forces have been ordered to be on standby to be sent to this region in case of US ground intervention in the Israeli war in Gaza.
The Intercept writes that according to another document, this standby order was issued to personnel who were sent to Iraq last year. Although these documents do not indicate the possibility of the US military’s ground involvement in the Gaza war, they show the extent of the plans of the decision-makers in the Pentagon to support Israel in the Gaza war.
According to the Intercept report A few days after the attacks on October 7, the US military ordered 2,000 of its troops to be ready to be deployed to support Israel in the war against Hamas. The Pentagon did not respond to The Intercept’s request for comment, but the White House has previously claimed that its support for Israel will not include sending ground troops to Gaza.
October 17 John Kirby The spokesman of the National Security Council of the White House said that there is no plan to send US ground forces to support Israel. However, two days after John Kirby’s statement The White House mistakenly published a photo of Biden’s meeting with members of one of the US secret operations units in Israel and deleted it moments later.
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