Gaza will become a ‘tent city’, an Israeli defense official has vowed, promising to raze every building to the ground in revenge for Hamas’ terror attacks at the weekend as the military forms up on the border ahead of an expected invasion.
In the early hours of Wednesday, Israeli forces conducted 250 airstrikes in just one hour across northern and eastern parts of the Gaza strip to pave the way for a massive ground operation.
Now, Israeli Defence Forces (IDF)
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For 33 years, Eitan Herzel has proudly dovetailed his career in Israel’s vaunted tech industry with reserve duty in an elite commando unit of the Israeli military.
Several times a year, for a total of roughly 30 days, Mr. Herzel left his job as a tech engineer to report for duty — initially as a fighter and then to guide the selection and training of new commandos.
That life of service came to a sudden end on Tuesday when Mr.
More than 11,000 Israelis in the military reserve said last week they’d resign if the government’s judicial overhaul went ahead. But now that the law has been passed, military officials and experts say it will take time to test the sincerity of those warnings.
The military says that the vast majority of those who participated in the joint declarations last week have yet to either send in their resignations or formally turn down direct call-ups. Since most reservists only get
