{"id":265674,"date":"2026-01-30T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/265674\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:49:13","slug":"israeli-media-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/265674\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli media \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US military destroyer USS Delbert D. Black\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b has docked at the southern Israeli port of Eilat on Friday, according to Israeli media.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said the visit was \u201cpreplanned and part of ongoing coordination between Israeli and US forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It described the docking as routine military cooperation amid heightened regional tensions.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter for The Times of Israel shared a photograph on US social media company X showing the destroyer positioned a short distance from the shoreline near Eilat.<\/p>\n<p>The docking came as tensions continued to rise between Washington and Tehran following the European Union\u2019s decision to designate Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a \u201cterrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20260130-israeli-report-says-trump-is-threatening-iran-publicly-but-pursuing-negotiations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli report says Trump is threatening Iran publicly but pursuing negotiations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The move came after Israel\u2019s public broadcaster KAN reported on Thursday that a US military vessel was preparing to dock near the southern port of Eilat as part of heightened US-Israeli military coordination amid rising regional tensions involving Iran.<\/p>\n<p>KAN said the step includes reinforced naval deployment and elevated defensive readiness as Israeli security agencies closely monitor US military movements.<\/p>\n<p>The developments come as tensions have escalated between Tehran and Washington in recent weeks following US President Donald Trump\u2019s statement that a \u201cmassive armada\u201d was moving toward Iran, alongside his call for Tehran to \u201ccome to the table\u201d for negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian officials have warned that any US attack would draw a \u201cswift and comprehensive\u201d response while reiterating that Tehran remains open to talks only under what it describes as \u201cfair, balanced, and noncoercive terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20260129-iran-warns-of-uncontrollable-consequences-if-attacked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran warns of uncontrollable consequences if attacked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US military destroyer USS Delbert D. Black\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b has docked at the southern Israeli port of Eilat on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-265674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}