IDF says it’s readying to deploy two reserve brigades to Gaza

The IDF is readying to deploy two reserve brigades to the Gaza Strip, under the 99th Division.

The 679th “Yiftah” Armored Brigade and the 2nd “Carmeli” Infantry Brigade, which had been operating on the northern border, “prepared in recent weeks for their mission in the Gaza Strip,” the military says.

The IDF says the two reserve brigades “practiced battle techniques and learned the main insights and lessons from fighting and maneuvering in the Gaza Strip so far.”

During the first few months of the IDF’s ground offensive, the 99th Division had been tasked with the central Gaza Strip corridor.

Its renewed deployment comes as the IDF prepares to carry out new offensives in Gaza, including in the southern city of Rafah, where Israel says four of Hamas’s six remaining battalions are.