IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot orders reinforcements to stay in position near the Gaza Strip and for troops to remain on high alert, following a security assessment with senior officers from the Gaza Division, as a shaky ceasefire appears to hold, the army says.
Eisenkot met with Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, Gaza Division commander Brig Gen. Eliezer Toledano, and the head of the 162nd Armored Division, Brig. Gen. Oded Basiuk.
“As part of the situational assessment, it was decided to maintain the readiness of the troops and the heightened amount of troops in the [Gaza] Division’s region,” the army says.
The chief of staff also discussed “different ways of using force in the future,” the military says, without elaborating.
— Judah Ari Gross
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