News - Middle East: The Israeli regime is about to mobilize as many as 80,000 reservists as it plans to occupy the Gaza Strip’s biggest urban area, the most extreme step yet during its October 2023-present war of genocide on the Palestinian territory.

Various Israeli media outlets reported the plan on Wednesday, saying the regime was to issue up to 80,000 reservist call-up orders later in the day.

The reservists are to be mobilized a month ahead of schedule. The regime decided to go ahead with implementing the plan early so it can “support assault preparations,” the outlets reported.

The move would defy admissions by Israeli officials, themselves, about growing signs of internal fatigue among the troops as a result of the rapid and steady escalation of the genocide throughout its roughly-22-month-long course.

The escalation has seen the warfare exact unprecedented brutality on Gaza, killing more than 62,000 Palestinians, using starvation as a weapon, and inflicting maximal destruction on the coastal sliver’s entire expanse.

Pointing to the involvement, which has stretched the military to its absolute limits despite unwavering Western support, the officials have warned that turnout among reservists could be far lower than the time, when the warfare began.

A diminished response, they cautioned, could drag the occupation scheme well into the next year.

‘Encirclement, continued mass displacement’

The regime’s minister for military affairs Israel Katz had announced on Tuesday that he had approved new operational plans alongside military chief Eyal Zamir and intelligence chiefs.

The strategy calls for regular brigades to encircle the city, forcing its roughly one million residents to flee.

The war has featured countless such summary assaults, which has seen hundreds of thousands of civilians fail to make time to escape in time beforehand.

Also on Tuesday, Qatari foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari confirmed that Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement had responded positively to a new ceasefire proposal.

The regime, though, claims it is yet “studying” Hamas’ response, while pressing ahead with war planning.

Hamas leaders have said the procrastination revealed the true nature of the regime’s intentions.

Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim said, “After the Hamas movement submitted its response, which expressed approval within the framework of a national position assessment, we are now waiting for the Zionist enemy’s reply to the mediators’ new proposal.”

“The reaction of the Zionists on Tuesday revealed Netanyahu’s sinister intentions to prolong the war, pursue mass killings, and carry out ethnic cleansing.”

Source: Press TV