Thousands of Israeli soldiers They have already started making the mat. They are going to leave Gaza and back home. The first ones, this week. Two full brigades, all reservists. He would enter his third phase of the Israeli offensive on the Strip. After the massive air attacks that prepared—ravaged—the terrain came the ground operation of incursion and control, without abandoning the bombings. And now, a phase that maintain the fence without ‘exhausting’ it for at least all this year.

“The objectives of the war require a prolonged war and we are preparing accordingly,” the spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces explained at a press conference.

This new chapter in the conflict should give a respite for the Gazans, with more attacks surgical and combats lower intensity. At least, that is what American commanders explain, who also confirm that the White House — until now Israel’s staunchest ally, rejecting even requests for a ceasefire — takes time, weeks, pressing so that it is so. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to the Middle East this week to drive home the message. It is also considered a test for the Hebrew premier, Netanyahu, and his mood.

Apart from the pressures, this new phase would respond to a Israeli double need:

  • In the short term, recover your battered economy (the 300,000 reservists that were mobilized are 15% of its active population). As Blas Moreno, international analyst of ‘El Orden Mundial’ explains for ‘Al Rojo Vivo’: “the Israeli economy has contracted by 2% in the last quarter, crazy; They know they can’t keep up the effort.
  • And while their troops regain strength…and it istrain for new fronts.“Like what could happen with Hezbollah in Lebanon, which could be worse than the Red Sea,” says Moreno.

In fact, the next to withdraw will be three brigades that prepare other units: the 828th, which trains squadron commanders, the 261st, which teaches army officers, and the 460th, which trains armored corps. They will return to their scheduled training, the IDF has confirmed.

All this, just when Israel has confirmed that it will appear at the International Criminal Court to “dismantle” the genocide complaint in gaza that South Africa opened against them.

On the fringe, on the terrainat the moment what we continue to see are very bloody attacks.