Thousands of reservists still on stand-by for Gaza strike

The defense establishment was only letting go some of the thousands of reservists called up by emergency order for a putative operation against terror networks in the Gaza Strip, military officials told a subcommittee of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday.

The subcommittee on manpower, chaired by MK Naomi Chazan (Meretz), heard that despite the newspaper reports saying that the emergency orders were being canceled, the army had no intention of canceling the orders for several thousand reservists because it still planned to go ahead with an operation in Gaza and because many of those called up were due for reserve service anyway.