The Israeli army says that it will call 60,000 reservists and lengthen the service of 20,000 additional reservists.
Israel will call 60,000 reservists in the coming weeks while he is advancing with a plan to seize Gaza City, said the army, even though the mediators are pursuing efforts to get a cease-fire in the 22-month war.
The army said on Wednesday that the Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, had approved plans to start operations in some of the most densely populated areas in Gaza and that it would call 60,000 reservists and lengthen the service of 20,000 additional reservists.
The announcement comes when human rights defense groups warn that a humanitarian crisis could get worse in Gaza, where most residents have been moved several times, the districts are in ruins and the deaths of famines continue to increase in the middle of the threat of large -scale famine.
An Israeli military official told journalists that the new combat phase would involve “a precise and progressive targeted operation in and around Gaza City”, including certain areas where the forces had not previously operated.
The official said the soldiers had already started to operate in the districts of Zeitoun and Jabalia as part of the first stages.
Tareq Abu Azzoum of Tel Aviv Tribune, reporting from Central Gaza, said that the residents were preparing for the worst while Israel continues its plan to grasp the largest city in Gaza, in an operation that could move hundreds of thousands of people in areas of concentration in the south of the territory.
Abu Azzoum said that Israeli artillery has flattened house rows in the east of the city of Gaza while attacks intensified in densely populated areas.
“Last night was completely sleeping while Israeli drones and war planes filled the sky, attacking and destroying houses and makeshift camps,” said Abu Azzoum.
He also described how a father from Al-Mawasi, an area known as Israeli designated in southern Gaza, lost his children in a night strike. “He told us that his children were sleeping peacefully when the Israeli missile had torn the tent and tore their bodies.”
On Wednesday, at least 35 Palestinians, including 10 people looking for help, were killed in Israeli attacks, according to medical sources.
Israel’s plan to degenerate its assault coincides with the renewed mediation efforts by Qatar and Egypt, with the support of the United States. The last executive provides for a 60 -day truce, an echeloned exchange of captives and Palestinian prisoners, and has expanded access to aid.
While Qatar said that the proposal was “almost identical” to a version that Israel had already accepted, Egypt stressed that “the ball is now in its court (of Israel)”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not publicly comment on the proposal. Last week, he insisted that any agreement must ensure that “all hostages are released immediately and according to our conditions to end the war”.
The senior Hamas official, Mahmoud Mardawi, said that his movement “had opened the door largely to the possibility of reaching an agreement, but the question remains whether Netanyahu will do it again, as he has done in the past”.
The push of the truce intervenes in the midst of international criticisms of the conduct of Israel in war and the increasing internal pressure on Netanyahu.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that at least 62,064 Palestinians had been killed since the War of Israel against Gaza began on October 7, 2023, most civilians. The United Nations consider ministry’s figures to be credible.
