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2025-05-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF calls up tens of thousands of reservists ahead of expanded Gaza offensive
[IsraelTimes] Soldiers to show up in coming week; ministers set to vote on army’s plans in Sunday cabinet meeting, after premier authorized them over weekend

The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday night that it was sending out tens of thousands of call-up orders to reservists, as the military was set to significantly expand its offensive against Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

The tens of thousands of reservists being called up would begin to show up in the military in the coming week, according to the IDF. The reservists have likely been called up multiple times already during the war.

On Friday, during a security consultation, the military presented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with its planned staged offensive in Gaza, which will require substantial mobilization.

Israel’s security cabinet was slated to convene on Sunday so ministers could vote to approve the military plans authorized by Netanyahu.

Currently, three IDF divisions are operating in Gaza, in an offensive that the military has said is aimed at pressuring Hamas back into a hostage deal, and not destroying the terror group.

Israeli officials have repeatedly warned that if no hostage deal is reached soon, the military would launch a major offensive aimed at defeating Hamas. The intensified offensive would see the IDF operating in new areas of the Strip.

The military said that the pressure on Hamas would increase incrementally, and the call-up of the reservists was part of its staged plans, because the terror group has been refusing to agree to a deal.

The reservists may not be sent to Gaza, but rather to other fronts — Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, Syria, and the West Bank — and swap out members of the standing army who will be deployed to the Strip.

The IDF has said that calling up reservists was being carried out solely out of "practical and operational interests," amid mounting letters signed by veterans calling for a hostage deal with Hamas, even if it comes at the cost of ending the war.

The military has assessed that Hamas still has organized forces in some areas of the Gaza Strip, especially in its center, where the terror group is working to preserve its "quality" fighters, alongside the recruitment of teenagers.

In areas where the IDF is operating — including Rafah and the Strip’s far north — Hamas is operating as a decentralized guerrilla group, according to the military’s assessments.

The IDF has said that it sees the return of the 59 hostages still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip as the most important goal of the war, with defeating the terror group in second place, after Netanyahu declared that "victory" over the terror group was the most important aim.
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