IDF says it has begun first stages of planned assault on Gaza City

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00:01The Israeli military update came late on Wednesday.

00:05We are not waiting.

00:07We have begun the preliminary operations in the first stages of the attack on Gaza City.

00:13IDF forces are already holding the outskirts of Gaza City.

00:18In light of the new assault, Israel's defense minister has also approved military plans

00:23to call up 60,000 reservists and extend the service of those currently serving.

00:29This despite Hamas approving a ceasefire deal on Monday, while Israel continues to study it.

00:36The news is yet another blow to the people of Gaza.

00:40Everyone was saying that there will be a truce. We also thought that.

00:44But waking up to the news that 50,000 soldiers are entering the Gaza Strip, this is very catastrophic news.

00:51I'm telling you, the point of these 50,000 soldiers is to occupy Gaza and destroy the Palestinian people,

00:59to completely destroy the Gaza Strip and force the people's displacement.

01:05Israel says it's expanding into Gaza City to root out Hamas, where it's allegedly regrouping.

01:10But the city is also one of the last places of refuge, where hundreds of thousands are sheltering.

01:17Some Gazans have begun to flee, even if they have no safe place to go.

01:22Most have already been displaced multiple times and forced into ever more densely packed areas.

01:27Israeli military officials say the reservists will be called up in the coming month,

01:32nearly doubling the number of active reservists to 120,000.

01:38It comes as a growing campaign of exhausted reservists accuse the government of perpetuating the war for political reasons.

01:44The call-up is also posed by Israel's ultra-orthodox Jewish community,

01:49as well as the families of the hostages and former army and intelligence chiefs.

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