Reservists Called Up for Gaza City Operation

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Preparing for a new attack

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will invite about 60,000 reserve soldiers to supplement their forces while they are preparing for an expanded military operation to Gaza City. The city, which is located in northern Gaza, is one of the most populated areas in the pocket despite the ongoing danger to Israeli attacks and a growing humanitarian crisis. The service of 20,000 additional reserve soldiers will also be extended in the active service.

Welcome again to world brief, where we look at it IsraelPreparation for the entry of Gaza City, NATO discussions on security guarantees UkraineAnd M23 attacks in Democracy Republic Congo.

Preparing for a new attack

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will invite about 60,000 reserve soldiers to supplement their forces while they are preparing for an expanded military operation to Gaza City. The city, which is located in northern Gaza, is one of the most populated areas in the pocket despite the ongoing danger to Israeli attacks and a growing humanitarian crisis. The service of 20,000 additional reserve soldiers will also be extended in the active service.

One of the military officials said during a briefing with the correspondents: “We will move to a new stage of fighting, which is a gradual, accurate and targeted process in Gaza City and around it.” Newsweek.

The summons of the reserve soldiers, the largest in months, is part of an accredited plan from the Defense Minister of Israel Katz aimed at preventing Hamas from starting future attacks or re -assembled them from its stronghold in northern Gaza.

“I ask you to use all tools and all the force to strike the enemy until it is subjected to it, and the Israeli Defense Army soldiers are protected,” Katz told the Israeli forces on Wednesday. The New York Times. The plan is expected to obtain final approval from the Army Chief of Staff in the coming days.

Meanwhile, the initial stage of the operation began, as Israel’s military spokeswoman told reporters on Wednesday that “the Israeli Defense Forces now maintains the accusations of Gaza City.” The soldiers will not be newly provided for service until September.

Israel is moving forward with plans to face local and international criticism from its allies and risk the displacement of more Palestinians in Gaza. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also faces pressure from the right -wing members of his alliance to continue the lands of war and the attachment.

One of these members is Finance Minister Paisalel Soutrich, who said on Wednesday that Israel has granted final approval to develop a controversial E1 settlement that will lead to the power of the West Bank. Development is mainly crushing optimism to resolve a viable state or a future Palestinian state.

“The Palestinian state is erased from the table, not with slogans, but with procedures,” Sottic said on Wednesday. “Every settlement, every neighborhood, every housing unit is another nail in the coffin of this dangerous idea.”

However, the imminent transfer to Gaza City can be prevented under the 60 -day ceasefire plan that Hamas approved earlier this week. The proposal will witness that Israel will retreat its forces to an 800 -meter -based buffer zone (or 875 yards) to Gaza, allowing 600 trucks of humanitarian aid daily, and about 1700 prisoners were liberated. On the other hand, Hamas will release 10 live hostages and the bodies of 18 deceased hostages. Israel said that there are still 50 hostages in Gaza, and it is believed that about 20 of them are still alive. Israel is expected to respond to the suggestion of the ceasefire by Friday.

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Explicit discussion. On Wednesday, NATO defense heads conducted a discussion that guarantees the security they could provide to Ukraine as part of the final deal to end the country of more than three years with Russia. The gathering was followed by US President Donald Trump’s meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinsky, and European leaders, none of them led to a clear path of peace.

The meeting of 32 heads of defense facilitated a “large and explicit discussion”, according to the position of X, which was written by the head of the Military Committee in NATO, Italian Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragon. He also reaffirmed the support of the strong group of Ukraine.

Ukraine requested military assurances supported by Western to prevent any organization from Russia on the line. However, any such security guarantees are likely to face a severe decline in Russia, which has repeatedly said that the presence of forces in NATO countries in Ukraine would be unacceptable. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that attempts to resolve Ukrainian security without Russian involvement will not lead to the movement towards the peace agreement.

“We cannot agree with the fact that it is now a proposal to solve security and collective security questions, without the Russian Federation. This will not work,” Lavrov said at a press conference. He added that any talks that do not include Moscow are “a road to anywhere.”

Getting peace. Rwandan -backed rebels killed dozens of civilians in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in mid -July, according to a new report issued by Human Rights Watch. The report found that the killings occurred just a few weeks after the signing of an intermediate initial peace deal in the United States between Rwanda and the Congo. The investigation included witnesses of witnesses from the medical staff, United Nations staff, and surviving publishers.

M23 denied his involvement in the killings, and even with overwhelming evidence from the United Nations, Rwanda continued to reject the support of the M23.

The White House praised the peace deal, but these new details undermine Trump’s self -praise to end the conflict for about 30 years. In addition, this report comes after the M23 rebels suspended Qattari’s talks in Qatar on Monday, which were aimed at securing permanent peace and accused the Congolese government of attacking the group’s seized lands.

Dangerous return. More than 70 Afghans returning from Iran died in a bus accident in Hirat County in Afghanistan near the Iranian border on Tuesday night. The accident occurred in one of the most dangerous highways in the country when the bus collided with a truck and a motorcycle. The bus was just one of the hundreds who were carrying Afghan refugees across the border, as Iran escalated expulsion and forced returns. The Hirat County crossing is the main point for entering thousands of Afghans who return every day.

More than 1.9 million Afghan refugees have been returned from neighboring Iran and Pakistan since the beginning of 2025 as part of a batch to remove uncontrolled citizens. The removal operations were particularly intensified in the wake of the Iran war in June after Iran accused some refugees of spying for Israel. However, Afghanistan is not placed to deal with the massive population flow, and many returnees reach without jobs or places to live in. The United Nations and humanitarian organizations strongly condemned the deportation and warned that the returnees are facing the threat of persecution and violence during the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

Difficulties end

The annual World Air Guiterment Championship began on Wednesday in Olu, Finland, with competitors from 13 countries ready to face who can rock the best air guitar. Since 1996, the competition has encouraged the participants for “air -making, not war”, believing that “climate change, wars, and all bad things will disappear when all people play the air guitar.” It is also a way to build communications with air and other music fans. “Many air heads in real life are actually playing tools,” Pierce Burnil told the UK to the BBC, so it does not matter whether they play Boom note because no one can hear it. “