{"id":314743,"date":"2025-09-04T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314743"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:26:16","slug":"hundreds-of-idf-reservists-say-they-wont-report-for-duty-if-called-up-for-gaza-city-takeover-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314743","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of IDF reservists say they won\u2019t report for duty if called up for Gaza City takeover op"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Summers \u2013 The Times of Israel Sept 2, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Israeli reservists hold a press conference to announce that they will not be reporting for duty in Gaza. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

A group of hundreds of reservists opposed to the IDF\u2019s plans to take over Gaza City have announced they will no longer report for duty if called up to fight in the ongoing war against Hamas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe are over 365, and counting, soldiers who served during the war and have declared that we will not report for duty when called again,\u201d says Sgt. First Class (res.) Max Kresch at a Tel Aviv press conference. \u201cWe refuse to take part in Netanyahu\u2019s illegal war, and we see it as a patriotic duty to refuse and demand accountability from our leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kresch, a combat medic, says that the group of reservists and soldiers are the same people who rushed to the frontline on October 7 to protect Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is precisely from that same sense of duty that we are driven to refuse,\u201d he declares.<\/p>\n

Sgt. First Class Dor Menachem says the order to occupy Gaza City \u201cendangers the hostages and soldiers themselves,\u201d claiming the entire military establishment expressed a \u201cdetermined stance against\u201d such a move. \u201cThere is no logic to this step,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Cpt. (res.) Ron Feiner, who served 270 days in reserve duty over the war, calls the decision made earlier this month to take over Gaza City \u2014 which many view as the first step to occupying the entire Strip \u2014 a \u201cpatently illegal order.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision to occupy Gaza will always be at the risk of the hostages, soldiers and citizens. It was given by a messianic government with no public legitimacy, that is only interested in its own political survival,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He notes the many hostage families who have spoken against expanding the war, out of worry that military pressure puts their loved ones at heightened risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor messianic ideas such as this, we will not report for duty. Here and now we are saying \u2018enough,’\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n

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