Israeli military issues thousands of call-up notices, local media report

TEL AVIV (Reuters) -The Israeli subject was issuing call-up notices to thousands of reservists connected Saturday to enactment an enlargement of its violative successful Gaza, Israeli media reported, aft the premier curate announced that his upcoming sojourn to Azerbaijan was postponed.

The reservists volition beryllium deployed to Israel's borderline with Lebanon and successful the occupied West Bank, replacing regular soldiers who volition pb a caller violative successful Gaza, the quality tract Ynet reported.

The subject had nary contiguous comment.

Earlier, the premier minister's bureau announced that Benjamin Netanyahu was rescheduling his May 7-11 sojourn to Azerbaijan, citing caller developments successful Gaza and Syria.

The office, which besides cited "the aggravated diplomatic and information schedule", did not denote a caller day for the visit. Netanyahu had been expected to conscionable with President Ilham Aliyev.

Israeli media reported connected Friday that the information furniture had approved plans for an expanded cognition successful the Gaza Strip.

Israel broke a fragile ceasefire with Hamas successful March aft seeking to widen it without engaging successful talks to permanently extremity the war. Hamas says it would merchandise the remaining hostages successful Gaza lone successful speech for an extremity to the war.

The subject has since intensified its bombing run and carved retired wide buffer zones successful Gaza, squeezing the 2.3 cardinal colonisation into an ever narrower portion successful the centre of the enclave and on the seashore and shutting disconnected assistance supplies.

Israel's enactment has asserted that it is committed to its warfare goals of defeating Hamas and bringing backmost the past 59 hostages held successful Gaza.

So far, 192 hostages person been released done negotiations and Israeli subject operations since November 2023. Most had been abducted connected October 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli tallies.

Israel's retaliatory warfare has reduced overmuch of the territory to rubble and killed much than 50,000 Palestinians, the bulk of them civilians, according to wellness officials successful Gaza.

(Reporting by Alexander Cornwell; Editing by Kevin Liffey)