Israel is poised to escalate its military campaign in the Gaza Strip after nearly 19 months of war.
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday approved plans to surge thousands of troops and expand military operations in the coming days, an Israeli official said, confirming Hebrew media reports. The security cabinet was scheduled to vote on Sunday to give final authorization to the plans.
Netanyahu’s office declined to comment.
A spokesman for the military confirmed that earlier this week preparations began for a large-scale mobilization of reservists to support the escalation in Gaza. Reserve commanders were called to duty and notified their brigades to prepare for deployment starting as early as next week—in some cases to Gaza and in others to replace active-duty troops who have already begun to redeploy to the strip from the West Bank and Israel’s borders with Syria and Lebanon.
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