[lbo-talk] Call up of thousands of reservists for a ground invasion

[Bryan Atinsky]

Shit, I just heard on the radio that they were going to be sending 
thousands of reserve call up notices. For a couple days already there 
were a few thousand Israeli soldiers in southern lebanon, and the 
Israeli media was keeping their numbers from us. Now, with the call up 
of reserves, they can't keep the level of what is going on from us 
anymore, and that means that the real ground invasion is about to begin.

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/741318.html
Army set to call up thousands of reservists; IAF planes pound Lebanon's 
main road link to Syria

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and The Associated 
Press

The Israel Defense Forces will be calling up additional reserve 
battalions, sending thousands more soldiers to fight Hezbollah on the 
northern border and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, the army 
said Friday.

The IDF said the call-up would likely come later in the day.

The decision comes on the heels of a significant expansion of the ground 
operations in the north, as the IDF sent thousands of troops into 
southern Lebanon on Thursday. Three reserve battalions have already been 
called up.

The reservists sent to Gaza will free up soldiers doing their compulsory 
service to go to the north. The additional soldiers in the north will be 
deployed to villages in southern Lebanon.