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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Zoran Kusovac

Analysis: What will Israel do with all its mobilised soldiers?

Israeli soldiers take position next to a road in Kfar Aza, south of Israel bordering the Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2023 [Thomas Coex/AFP]

Following last week’s surprise attacks and unprecedented incursion by Hamas fighters, Israel officially declared a state of war and initiated an enormous mobilisation.

Sources report that 360,000 reservists have been summoned. They will supplement an active military force of more than 150,000, giving Israel half a million men and women in uniform.

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