The US media disclosed that the CVN78 USS Ford, which has been extended many times, is finally about to return to the United States, and since October 2023, the USS Ford has been working overtime in the Mediterranean, according to the original deployment plan, the USS Ford should have returned to the United States a long time ago, but due to the outbreak of a new round of large-scale conflict between Palestine and Israel, the US Pentagon ordered the USS Ford aircraft carrier to extend the deployment time. At a time when the U.S. Navy did not use other aircraft carriers to replace the USS Ford, the U.S. Navy's withdrawal of aircraft carriers was a very unusual move, so it immediately attracted the attention of the outside world. Israel began its military operation in the Palestinian Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, during which the United States strongly supported Israel.
In fact, the U.S. Navy not only used the CVN 78 aircraft carrier Ford to approach the Middle East, but also the CVN 69 Eisenhower aircraft carrier urgently arrived in the Middle East for combat deployment, and before the U.S. Navy used the CVN 69 Eisenhower, the U.S. Navy already had the LHD5 Bataan amphibious assault ship strike group formation to carry out tasks in the Middle East. As a result, since October last year, the United States has three naval strike groups in the Middle East, underscoring the extraordinary level of U.S. support for Israel. Just as the USS CVN 78 Ford aircraft carrier was about to return, Israel's deployment of troops in the Palestinian Gaza Strip had changed, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quite weak-minded.
According to foreign media reports, Iranian officials have claimed that the Israel Defense Forces have changed their tactics and have partially withdrawn ground forces in the Gaza Strip, mainly tank forces, starting from January 1. According to information obtained by Beacon Station, the IDF began its mission into the Palestinian Gaza Strip on October 28, 2023, during which a large number of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles entered the Gaza Strip. Israel began its ground offensive in northern Gaza and is currently fighting in southern and central Gaza. Although Israel has destroyed numerous buildings in the Gaza Strip through air strikes, it has not been able to stop the Palestinian Hamas forces from fighting back.
The Palestinian Hamas forces have been attacking Israeli armored vehicles on the ground through tandem anti-tank rockets, and the Palestinian Hamas forces have frequently updated videos of attacks on Israeli tank units, thus making Israel very passive. Israel's ground combat operations in the Gaza Strip have reached a quagmire, because there is no outstanding record at all, but it is being chased and beaten by Palestinian Hamas forces, and Israel has paid a heavy price for launching a ground offensive, so Israeli Prime Minister Netyahu has put more pressure on it.
The atrocities committed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Palestinian Gaza Strip have become well known through social media, and according to publicly available information, nearly 22,000 people have been killed in the Palestinian Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, under the frenzied Israeli attack. Israel is already in the "spotlight" of international public opinion, and Israel can no longer hide the atrocities of the Israel Defense Forces, and at the same time the pressure has also been on the side of the United States, because the United States has strongly supported Israel's military strike on the Palestinian Gaza Strip. The withdrawal of the USS Ford CVN 78 aircraft carrier was a signal from the United States to Israel, for which part of the Israeli troops were evacuated from the Gaza Strip.