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Acknowledging ‘difficult’ call-up of reservists, IDF spokesman says military needs everyone, ‘including Haredim,’ to mobilize
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, in his press conference, says the call-up of tens of thousands of reservists for the intensified Gaza offensive is “difficult and complicated, but is being done to return our hostages and to defeat [Hamas] and end the war.”
He says that currently, for the missions at hand, the IDF has enough forces.
But he adds that the military “needs everyone to mobilize,” and that the IDF will work to “draft all parts of society, including the Haredim.”
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