Israeli reservists report functions before the Gaza City offensive

Thousands of reservists have started to report on duty while the Israeli soldiers continue with its offensive to conquer the city of Gaza.

Land forces are already growing on the outskirts of the largest urban area in Gaza, which, according to the army, is a bastion of Hamas.

The city is also one of the heavy Israeli air bombings and artillerymen, with local hospitals saying that more than 50 Palestinians have been killed there since midnight.

The army ordered residents to immediately evacuate and head south. The UN says that 20,000 estimated have done so in the past two weeks, but there are almost a million.

UN humanitarian officials have warned that the impact of a full offensive would be “beyond the catastrophic”, not only for those of the city but for the entire Gaza Strip.

Last month, Israeli Defense Forces (FDI) said that around 60,000 reservists would be called before “the Gideon’s Chariots II operation” – the next phase of the ground offensive it launched in May and saw control of at least 75% Gaza.

He also extended the service of 20,000 reservists who had already been mobilized.

On Tuesday, an Israeli military official said thousands of people had started to report for homework.

The Israeli media have said that many reservists would be deployed on the occupied West Bank and northern Israel to release active staff for the offensive.

They also pointed out that certain combat units saw a lower participation rate than for previous calls, with reservists who had already made several tours during the 22 -month war to request exemptions for personal or financial reasons.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would conquer all Gaza after indirect talks with Hamas on a cease-fire and hostage release contract was broken in July.

On Sunday, during a government meeting, he said that the security firm had agreed that the TSAhal’s objectives were “defeated in Hamas and released all our hostages”.

The armed group currently has 48 hostages, 20 of which are supposed to be alive.

The hostages of the hostages fear that the new offense puts them in danger and demands that the Prime Minister negotiate an agreement which would obtain his release.

“Stop the war and bring all the hostages to the house in an agreement – the living and the dead – some for the rehabilitation in the embrace of their families, others for the appropriate burial on Israeli soil,” said the daughter of Ilan Weiss, one of the two hostages whose body was recovered by Israeli troops in Gaza last week, during its funeral Kibbutz Be’eri on Monday.

FDI’s chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Eyal Zamir, urged Netanyahu to accept a current proposal from regional mediators who would see about half of them released during a 60-day truce. However, the Prime Minister said that Israel would only accept a complete transaction that would see all the released hostages and the disarmed Hamas.

On Sunday, there would have been exchanges of anger between Zamir and the ministers at a meeting.

The general warned that their Gaza City plan would endanger hostages and lead Israel to establish a military government there, according to Israeli media. An anonymous principal minister was quoted by Ynet’s website saying that the general “had done everything to convince against the plan, but clearly indicated that he would realize it”.

In an address to reservists of the nacheral base in the center of Israel on Tuesday, Zamir said that the FDIs were preparing for anything less than a “decisive victory”.

“We are going to increase and improve the strikes of our operation, and that is why we have called you,” he said. “We will not stop war before defeating this enemy.”

On the field on the ground in Gaza on Tuesday, hospital officials said that Israeli strikes and fires had killed at least 95 Palestinians since midnight.

The Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City reported 35 of the deaths, including nine people who were killed in an air strike in the southern district of Tal al-Hawa and seven other people killed in a strike in a house in the northern district of Sheikh Radwan.

The UN warned that forcing hundreds of thousands of people to move further south is “a recipe for an additional disaster and could be a forced transfer”, which would be a war crime.

World Food Safety Experts have confirmed that a famine was performing in Gaza City and planning that it will develop in the central city of Deir al-Balah and the southern city of Khan Younis by the end of September.

The UN also said that the tent camps for the displaced in the South were overcrowded and dangerous, and that the South Hospitals several times operate their capacity.

In Khan Younis on Tuesday, Nasser Hospital said he had received the bodies of 31 people killed by an Israeli fire, including 13 who died in two strikes in Al-Mawasi and Khan Younis Camp.

Hospital emergency physicians told the BBC that most of the victims treated were children and the elderly.

“We cannot deal with cases due to high pressure on us and the lack of supplies. The CT (scanner) is now broken down, so we work blindly,” said a doctor. “The current situation is catastrophic.”

The Ministry of Health managed by Gaza of Hamas said that 13 Palestinians, three of whom have died due to malnutrition across the territory in the past 24 hours. This increased the total reported during the war at 361, of which 185 in August only, he added.

The UN said that famine is an “artificial disaster” and said that Israel was forced under international humanitarian law to ensure food and medical supplies of the Gaza population.

Israel said there was no restrictions on aid deliveries and had challenged the figures for the Ministry of Health on death -related deaths.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the attack by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, during which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

At least 63,633 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health in the territory.