Analysts suggest Israel could fight a war on three fronts, with threats from Hezbollah in the north and unrest in the occupied West Bank
An IDF reservist sits with fellow troops at Kfar Aza, a kibbutz near the Gaza border where dozens of civilians were killed has expanded its mobilisation of reservists with flights dispatched around Europe to bring them back to the country, raising speculation that Israel is“We have never drafted so many reservists on such a scale,” the chief military spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces , Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said.
Israel’s military confirmed on Tuesday that the IDF have “more or less” restored full control over the border fence with Gaza, with growing anticipation that there will be a ground incursion into the Palestinian territory.Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre Middle East correspondent Alistair Bunkall at Sky News reported an IDF source as saying the Israeli offensive into Gaza “is not going to be clean”.
Major Nir Dinar, spokesperson for the IDF, said troops were waiting for a decision from the government on a ground offensive into Gaza, and were aware of the inevitable risks. Once soldiers get into Gaza “it’s going to be street fighting, house to house, and large civilian casualties”, he added.In the past, Israel’s ground incursions were preceded by a wave of airstrikes. In the days since the cross-border incursion by Hamas gunmen on Saturday, Israel has pummelled Gaza with intense airstrikes that has reduced some areas, including the upmarket Rimal neighbourhood, to rubble.said at least 187,518 Palestinians have fled their homes in Gaza.
An Israeli army official has advised the more than two million Palestinians who live in Gaza to leave by using the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, but it was shut down on Monday after an Israeli airstrike on the border terminal.
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