The largest US aircraft carrier has moored in the Bay of Palma.

PalmThe United States' largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier arrived in Mallorca this Friday morning. Around 9 a.m., the immense warship began to appear on the horizon. Gerald R. Ford, which has led to the activation of a security operation and has sparked public outcry and curiosity. The most modern ship in the United States Navy is scheduled to remain in Palma until next Wednesday.

The military vessel is over 330 meters long, has the capacity to embark up to 75 aircraft, and a displacement exceeding 100,000 tons. Approximately 4,500 personnel travel on board, including sailors, airmen, and support personnel.

The ladder is part of a US deployment in the Mediterranean. The US Embassy in Spain emphasized in a statement that this visit "underlines the strong bilateral relationship in defense matters and the strategic importance of the Mediterranean as an area of stability and cooperation." The warship's arrival coincides with a time of high geopolitical tension, with active conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Concentration against the military ship

Mallorca for Peace has called for a rally this Friday at 6:30 p.m. to demonstrate their contempt for the American aircraft carrier. The meeting point will be at the end of Avenidas and the Paseo Marítimo. "Its presence is a symbol of war, threat, and military escalation," they denounce. The organization rejects NATO and its wars and urges a future of peace and coexistence among peoples.

In this regard, they maintain that this military deployment is part of the same warlike logic that unites the United States and Israel. "Just this Thursday, the members of the humanitarian flotilla for Gaza were detained and kidnapped by the Israeli military, so the aforementioned platform demands their immediate release," they state in a statement.

The platform also denounces the "pathetic attitude" of the Spanish government, which has left the Flotilla without protection, "in fact recognizing the illegal maritime limits imposed by the State of Israel, a government that continues to carry out a terrorist and genocidal policy against the Palestinian people."

For all these reasons, the Mallorca for Peace platform calls on all citizens to mobilize this Friday in an act of rejection of the aircraft carrier and militarism and in support of the immediate freedom of the people kidnapped from the Flotilla, "and especially of our Mallorcan heroines who participated, Luc.