Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, chief of the IDF’s General Staff, on Sunday told soldiers in the Gaza Strip that the next phase was about to start for the operation against Hamas.
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“The purpose of the move is to ease the burden on the reserve army as much as possible,” he said, according to Israel’s state-owned Army Radio news channel.
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