Israel
November 16, 2012
Israeli general tells mayors to prepare for weeks of fighting
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Pro-Palestinian protesters burn an Israeli flag during a demonstration against Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip in Sanaa on Nov. 16. Photo by REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Israel’s Home Front Command reportedly has instructed municipalities around Gaza to prepare for a fighting period of up to seven weeks.
The news site Ynet reported Friday that GOC Home Front Command Eyal Eisenberg told subordinate officers and mayors of southern and central municipalities to prepare for “up to seven weeks of fighting.”
On Friday, the third day of Israel’s operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza, thousands of Israel Defense Forces troops arrived at military bases in Israel’s south for possible preparation for a ground incursion into Gaza. Hundreds of military trucks arrived carrying munitions, fuel, water and equipment alongside tank carriers and army jeeps in roads around the Gaza Strip, Ynet reported.
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz has called up 16,000 reserve troops. On Thursday, Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai said a ground incursion was “definitely an option.”
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Smoke trails are seen as an Iron Dome intercepts a rocket which was launched from Gaza, near the southern town of Sderot, on Nov. 15. Photo by REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Nov. 15. A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, drawing the first blood from Israel as the Palestinian death toll rose to 15 in a military showdown lurching closer to all-out war and an invasion of the enclave. Photo by REUTERS/Stringer
Palestinians extinguish a fire after Israeli air strikes targeted an electricity generator that fed the house of Hamas' Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, in Gaza City, on Nov. 15. Israeli aircraft attacked targets throughout the Gaza Strip on Thursday night, unleashing dozens of strikes in swift succession according to Reuters witnesses. Photo by REUTERS/Majdi Fathi
Israeli soldiers take cover as an air raid siren warns of incoming rockets before the funeral of Aaron Smadja, one of the three Israelis killed by a rocket fired from Gaza, at a cemetery in the southern city of Kiryat Malachi on Nov. 15. Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip targeted Tel Aviv on Thursday in the first attack on Israel's commercial capital in 20 years, raising the stakes in a showdown between Israel and the Palestinians that is moving towards all-out war. Photo by REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
A smoke trail from a rocket launched from the northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 15. Photo by REUTERS/ Darren Whiteside
An Israeli F16 fighter jet flies over the southern city of Ashdod on Nov. 15. A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, drawing the first blood from Israel as the Palestinian death toll rose to 15 in a military showdown lurching closer to all-out war and an invasion of the enclave. Photo by REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Israeli soldiers at their base just outside the central Gaza Strip on Nov. 15. Photo by REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike in the northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 15. A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, drawing the first blood from Israel as the Palestinian death toll rose to 15 in a military showdown lurching closer to all-out war with an invasion of the enclave. Photo by REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
An IDF tank just outside the northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 15. Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip targeted Tel Aviv on Thursday in the first attack on Israel's commercial capital in 20 years, raising the stakes in a showdown between Israel and the Palestinians that is moving towards all-out war. Photo by REUTERS/Amir Cohen
An Iron Dome launcher fires an interceptor rocket near the southern town of Sderot November 15. A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, drawing the first blood from Israel as the Palestinian death toll rose to 15 in a military showdown lurching closer to all-out war with an invasion of the enclave. Photo by REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
A wedding photo and other belongings are seen in a house damaged after a rocket, fired from Gaza, landed in the southern city of Kiryat Malachi November 15. Photo by REUTERS/Nir Elias
A Torah scroll lies on a mattress in a house which was damaged after a rocket, fired from Gaza, landed in the southern city of Kiryat Malachi November 15. Photo by REUTERS/Nir Elias
An Israeli soldier throws out a blood-stained table from an apartment damaged after a rocket, fired from Gaza, landed in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi November 15. Photo by REUTERS/Nir Elias
An Israeli civilian runs to take cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets at the scene where a rocket, fired from Gaza, landed in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi November 15. Photo by REUTERS/Nir Elias
People wave Israeli flags during a demonstration supporting soldiers in Israel's military operation in Gaza, as they stand opposite a counter-protest at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem November 15. A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, drawing the first blood from Israel as the Palestinian death toll rose to 13 and a military showdown lurched closer to all-out war with an invasion of the enclave. Photo by REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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