Israeli reservists report on duty before the Gaza City offensive

Thousands of reservists have begun to report on duty as an Israeli military press forward with their offensive to conquer the city of Gaza.

The ground forces are already being pressed on the outskirts of the largest city area of ​​Gaza, which the military said was a fortress of Hamas.

The city is also under heavy Israeli air and artillery bombing, with local hospitals saying that more than 50 Palestinians were killed there at midnight.

The military ordered the residents to be evacuated and headed immediately south. The UN says approximately 20,000 have done it in the last two weeks, but almost a million remain.

The UN humanitarian officials have warned that the impact of a full offensive will be “beyond the catastrophic” not only for those in the city, but for the whole strip of Gaza.

Last month, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said about 60,000 reservists would be called before “Operation Gideon Hars II” – the next phase of the offensive, which started in May and saw him take control of at least 75% of the gas.

It also expanded the service of 20,000 reservists who had already been mobilized.

On Tuesday, an Israeli military official said thousands had started reporting on duty.

Israeli media have said many reservists will be located on the occupied West Bryag and Northern Israel to release active staff for the offensive.

They also report that some combat units have seen a lower turnout than for previous calls, with reservists who have already served several tours during the 22-month war, demanding the release of personal or financial reasons.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Israel will conquer the whole gas after indirect negotiations with Hamas for a deal to end the fire and the hostages fell apart in July.

At a government meeting on Sunday, he said that the security cabinet agreed that IDF’s goals were “defeating Hamas and released all our hostages.”

The armed group currently owns 48 hostages, 20 of which are thought to be alive.

The hostages of the hostages fear that the new offensive will endanger them and requires the prime minister to negotiate an agreement that would ensure their release.

“Stop the war and bring all the hostages to the home in a deal – the living and the dead – some for rehabilitation in the embrace of their families, others for the proper funeral of the Israeli soil,” says Ilan Weiss’s daughter, one of the two bodies of Kami.

The head of the IDF headquarters, Lieutenant Gen Aal Zamir, called on Netanyahu to accept a current proposal from regional mediators, which he would see about half of them released during a 60-day truce. The prime minister, however, said that Israel would only accept a complete deal that would see all the hostages, released and Hamas disarmed.

It is reported that there are angry exchanges between Zamir and ministers at a meeting on Sunday.

The general warned that their Gaza urban plan would put the hostages at risk and lead Israel to set up a military government there, according to Israeli media. An unnamed senior minister was quoted by the YNET website, saying that the general “did everything to convince the plan, but explained several times that he would do so.”

In addressing the reservists at the Nachshonim base in Central Israel on Tuesday, the IDF was preparing for nothing less than a “decisive victory”.

“We will increase and improve the beats of our operation, so we called you,” he said. “We will not stop the war until we defeat this enemy.”

On the ground in Gaza on Tuesday, hospital staff said Israeli strikes and fire killed at least 95 Palestinians from midnight.

Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza reported 35 of the deaths, including nine people who were killed in an air strike in the southern Tal al-Hava neighborhood, and seven other killed at a hunch of a house in the northern sheikh Radvan.

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

Global food security experts have confirmed that a hunger is appearing in the city of Gaza and predicted that it will expand to the central city of Deir Al Balah and the southern city of Han Eunis by the end of September.

The UN also said that tent camps for the south south are overcrowded and dangerous and that the southern hospitals operate several times their capacity.

In Khan Eunice on Tuesday, a hospital in Nasser said she had received the bodies of 31 people killed by Israeli fire, including 13 who had died in two strikes at the Al Mavasi and Khan Station camp.

The medics in the hospital’s emergency room told the BBC that most of the casualties who are being treated are children and the elderly.

“We can’t deal with more cases because of the high pressure on us and the lack of deliveries. CT (scanner) is already broken, so we are working blindly,” a doctor said. “The current situation is catastrophic.”

Meanwhile, Hamas Health Ministry in Gaza said 13 Palestinians, including three children, were killed as a result of malnutrition throughout the last 24 hours. This increased the total number reported during the war to 361, including 185 in August alone, he added.

The UN said the hunger was “human -created disaster” and said that Israel was obliged by international humanitarian law to provide food and medical supplies to the Gaza population.

Israel stated that there were no restrictions on assistance supplies and had challenged the Ministry of Health data on malnutrition deaths.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to an attack led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

Since then, at least 63 633 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the territory.