{"id":289664,"date":"2024-06-18T06:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=289664"},"modified":"2024-06-20T06:29:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T06:29:36","slug":"israeli-army-in-urgent-need-of-troops-as-resistance-deals-heavy-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=289664","title":{"rendered":"Israeli army in \u2018urgent need\u2019 of troops as resistance deals heavy losses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cradle \u2013 June 17, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Israeli army is facing<\/a> significant difficulties in confronting the Palestinian resistance across the Gaza Strip, Hebrew news outlet Channel 12 reported on 16 June.<\/p>\n

Hamas\u2019 Qassam Brigades and other groups are \u201cstill waging war in the Gaza Strip, and are capable of harming Israeli army soldiers,\u201d military sources told the outlet.<\/p>\n

The sources added that in Gaza\u2019s southernmost city of Rafah particularly, the army has not been able to eliminate the Qassam Brigades or its military capabilities, and that Tel Aviv may end the operation there without achieving its goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsraeli hopes for the battle in Rafah are misleading the public \u2026 Hamas has succeeded in rebuilding itself in the Gaza Strip,\u201d Israeli commentator on Palestinian affairs, Ohad Hamo, told Channel 12.<\/p>\n

The Hebrew media report coincided with eleven funerals<\/a> of Israeli army soldiers across Israel on Sunday, who were killed in battles with the resistance across Gaza.<\/p>\n

Most of the funerals were for the eight Israeli soldiers<\/a> who were burned alive inside a Namer armored vehicle that was struck by the resistance in Rafah on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Hebrew media described the attack as the deadliest in Gaza since January.<\/p>\n

Days earlier, on 10 June, the Qassam Brigades announced<\/a> that several Israeli soldiers were killed after its fighters detonated a booby-trapped building in Rafah with troops inside.<\/p>\n

As the fighting rages, Tel Aviv\u2019s enlistment crisis continues to worsen.<\/p>\n

An Israeli army radio correspondent, Doron Kadosh, reported on Monday that the military is setting up a new division for reservists over the retirement age of 40 in order to meet the \u201curgent need for more troops.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new division is in \u201cadvance stages\u201d and will call on Israelis who were previously exempt from serving, according to Kadosh.<\/p>\n

The Israeli government has also supported a draft bill aimed at extending the reservist retirement age despite opposition from the public.<\/p>\n

Due to \u201ca very high volume of deaths and injuries as a result of the war, the IDF still needs a significant amount of manpower,\u201d the draft bill<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe extension of the temporary order is required, at this stage, to allow the IDF to keep in service the reserve officers who cannot be replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Moves are underway to extend the retirement age of reservists due to ‘high volumes’ of IDF casualties in Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":289665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289666,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289664\/revisions\/289666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}