2ND 5.2 QUAKE IN AFGHANISTAN WERE THE 6.0 OCCURED YESTERDAY. ISLAM IS PAYING THE PRICE FOR HATING ON ISRAEL.

2ND 5.2 QUAKE IN AFGHANISTAN WERE THE 6.0 OCCURED YESTERDAY. ISLAM IS PAYING THE PRICE FOR HATING ON ISRAEL.

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

SO FAR 1,400 HAVE DIED IN THE FIRST QUAKE OF 6.0 YESTERDAY. AND 3,000 INJURED.THERE HAS JUST BEEN ANOTHER 5.2 QUAKE IN THE SAME AREA IN AFGHANISTAN AS YESTERDAYS.RUSSIA BEEN HAVING A LOT OF SMALL QUAKES.THERE READY FOR A BIG ONE ALSO.AND CHINA HAD ONE TODAY ALSO.ITS STILL 1,000 DEAD IN THE SUDAN LANSLIDE THAT DEMOLISHED A WHOLE VILLAGE AND ONLY 1 PERSON SURVIVED.

5.2-34 km NE of Jalālābād, Afghanistan-2025-09-02 12:29:38 (UTC)-10.0 km
4.6-268 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia-2025-09-02 12:18:46 (UTC)-10.0 km
4.7-170 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia-2025-09-02 11:56:34 (UTC)-10.0 km
5.0-128 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia-2025-09-02 11:25:03 (UTC)-36.5 km
4.9-90 km NNW of Tumxuk, China-2025-09-02 07:58:50 (UTC)-10.0 km
4.4-67 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia-2025-09-02 01:03:28 (UTC)-85.1 km

I HAVE BEEN IN MY ROOM FOR THE LAST 4 DAYS.ITS BACK.ONE OF OUR RESEDENTS HAS COVID.WE EAT IN OUR ROOMS.AND STAY IN OUR ROOMS.EXCEPT A FEW BIDEN TYPE WANDER THE HALL.THE FACE DIAPERS LOOK EVEN WORSE TO BREATH IN FOR THE LADIES. WE WILL PROBABLY BE IN ISOLATION FOR ANOTHER 1 TO A WEEK AND A HALF, I FIGURE.I HAVENT SEEN ANY BIG MUSLIMS  OWNERS AROUND HERE LATELY WITH THE SUBMISSIVE BLANKET BODY AND TOWEL HEAD COVERIING.THERES BEEN A FEW CHANGES.THE ISLAMIST OWNER IS GETTING CHEAPER.CHEAPER TOILET PAPER. PAPER TOWELS AND OUR PREVAIL GREEN PACKAGE WIPES ARE NOW LITTLE BLUE CHEAP CRAP SINGLE WIPES.THAT ALL FOR NOW.

5.2 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Afghanistan Day After 1,400 Killed In Quake-Curated By :Shobhit Gupta-News18.com-September 03, 2025, 04:16 IST

An earthquake oof magnitude 5.2 struck eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a day after a major earthquake in northern Afghanistan killed over 1,400 people and caused widespread damage.The epicentre of the earthquake was 34 kilometres (21 miles) northeast of Jalalabad city in Nangarhar province, news agency AFP reported citing the USGS.A 6.0-magnitude quake struck late Sunday in several provinces, flattening villages and leaving people trapped under the rubble of homes constructed mostly of mud bricks and wood, unable to withstand the shock.According to figures released by the Taliban government on Tuesday, the powerful tremor killed more than 1,400 people and left over 3,000 injured. According to the USGS, the epicentre of the Sunday night’s earthquake was about 27 kilometres (17 miles) from Jalalabad and struck just eight kilometres below the Earth’s surface.The worst-affected region is Kunar province, where 1,411 people were reported dead and more than 3,100 injured. In neighbouring Nangarhar province, at least a dozen more people died and hundreds were injured, Chief Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.Rescue operations are continuing as emergency workers and local villagers search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble. Many homes in the region, made of mud and stone, collapsed instantly during the shallow quake.United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Afghanistan Indrika Ratwatte had said that earthquake could affect “hundreds of thousands".Rescuers searched through the night and all day for survivors in the rubble of homes flattened in Kunar, where more than 5,400 houses were destroyed, government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said on X.Many of the worst-affected areas were still unreachable by road, but emergency facilities were being set up and multiple countries had announced they would provide aid, Fitrat said.UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced $5 million in initial emergency aid and said the UN was working closely with Afghan authorities to assess needs and deliver assistanceAfghanistan, already facing a deep humanitarian crisis, has seen foreign aid drastically reduced since the Taliban takeover in 2021. The situation has worsened following global funding cuts and the return of millions of Afghan refugees from neighbouring countries.The country is no stranger to earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush region. In recent years, major quakes in Herat (2023) and Paktika (2022) claimed thousands of lives and destroyed tens of thousands of homes.(With inputs from agencies)
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Rescuers focus on remote Afghan regions after earthquake kills over 1,400-SEP 2,25

A provincial head of disaster management says authorities cannot predict the number of bodies trapped under the rubble.Locals walk by a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed hundreds and destroyed villages in eastern Afghanistan, in Mazar Dara, Kunar province.Rescuers are trying to reach remote areas in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar region after a devastating earthquake killed at least 1,411 people and wounded 3,124 others, according to Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.On Tuesday, Mujahid wrote in a post on X that 5,412 houses were destroyed due to the earthquake’s intensity.Kunar’s head of disaster management, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said earlier on Tuesday that efforts would be extended to more of the region’s mountainous areas.“We cannot accurately predict how many bodies might still be trapped under the rubble,” Ehsan said.“Our effort is to complete these operations as soon as possible and to begin distributing aid to the affected families,” he said, adding that some of those who were injured have been transferred to hospitals in neighbouring Nangarhar province and the capital, Kabul.Amid ongoing recovery efforts, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that northeastern Afghanistan was hit by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake, which struck at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles).One of the deadliest earthquakes the tremor-prone country has experienced struck just before midnight on Sunday. It was a shallow, magnitude 6 quake with its epicentre at a depth of about 8km (5 miles).The mountainous terrain in the area is making rescue work difficult. Volunteers have been unable to reach isolated areas along the Pakistani border, where mostly mud-brick homes have been destroyed.According to Ehsan, gaining vehicle access to the narrow mountainous roads in the area has been the main obstacle for relief work. The roads have been damaged by the quake or covered in landslides.‘Nobody to help them and pull them out’Obaidullah Stoman, 26, who travelled to the village of Wadir in Kunar’s Nugral district to search for a friend, told the AFP news agency that there was “only rubble left”.“I’m searching here, but I didn’t see him. It was very difficult for me to see the conditions here,” he said.Akhlaq, 14, who was injured and evacuated to the hospital, lost five members of his family to the earthquake in the remote village.“Our whole house collapsed. My brothers and father were all buried. Only I survived and made it out,” he told AFP.“Then I heard my father’s voice, and I managed to rescue him,” he said, adding, “There are victims who are still under the rubble, but there is nobody to help them and pull them out.”‘Extremely challenging’The lack of road access has forced emergency response teams to rely on helicopters, Indrika Ratwatte, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan, said at a news briefing in Kabul.“There’s been lots of landslides and rock falls, and access has been very limited to everybody in the first 24 hours,” he said.In a situational update, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the destruction of roads and the remote locations of many of the affected villages “severely impede the delivery of aid”.“The pre-earthquake fragility of the health system means local capacity is overwhelmed, creating total dependence on external actors,” the WHO said, adding that more than 12,000 people have been affected.Homa Nader, the acting deputy head of delegation in Afghanistan for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, told Al Jazeera it has become “nearly impossible” to continue with the rescue efforts due to the destruction of the roads.“The challenges still remain. We had … the disaster management directive that came in yesterday with heavy machinery to clear out some of the road and the rubble to be able to support with access so that humanitarian actors like the Afghan Red Crescent Society can go and operate search and rescue operations, but unfortunately, it’s extremely challenging,” Nader said on Tuesday.She warned that it is “absolutely likely that those [death toll] numbers would dramatically increase because we are not getting to the most remote villages as of yet”.

Over 1,000 killed in landslide on village in Sudan’s Darfur: ‘Only one person survived’Sudan Liberation Movement-Army, the rebel group controlling the area, says village ‘completely leveled to the ground’; region is hub for displaced families fleeing fighting-By Samy Magdy Today, 12:15 pm-SEPT 2,25

CAIRO (AP) — A landslide wiped out a village in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country’s recent history, a rebel group controlling the area said late Monday.The tragedy happened Sunday in the village of Tarasin in Central Darfur’s Marrah Mountains after days of heavy rainfall, the Sudan Liberation Movement-Army said in a statement.“Initial information indicates the death of all village residents, estimated to be more than one thousand people. Only one person survived,” the statement read.The village was “completely leveled to the ground,” the group said, appealing to the UN and international aid groups for help to recover the bodies.The ruling Sovereign Council in Khartoum mourned “the death of hundreds of innocent residents” in the Marrah Mountains’ landslide. In a statement, it said “all possible capabilities” have been mobilized to support the area.Footage shared by the Marrah Mountains news outlet showed a flattened area between mountain ranges with a group of people searching the area.The tragedy came as a devastating civil war has engulfed Sudan after tensions between the country’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces exploded into open fighting in April 2023 in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country.Most of the conflict-stricken Darfur region has become mostly inaccessible for the UN and aid groups, given crippling restrictions and fighting between Sudan’s military and the RSF.Aid group Doctors Without Borders has warned that multiple communities in Darfur, including in the Marrah Mountains, have been cut off after more than two years of war and isolation, describing these areas as “a black hole” in Sudan’s humanitarian response.It said in a July report that people in these communities have been “deprived of adequate assistance and snubbed by aid actors… despite enduring horrid conditions.”The Sudan Liberation Movement-Army, centered in the Marrah Mountains area, is one of multiple rebel groups active in the Darfur and Kordofan regions. It hasn’t taken sides in the war.The Marrah Mountains are a rugged volcanic chain extending for 160 kilometers (100 miles) southwest of el-Fasher, an epicenter of fighting between the military and the RSF. The area has turned into a hub for displaced families fleeing fighting in and around el-Fasher.The conflict in Sudan has killed more than 40,000 people, forced more than 14 million to flee their homes and left some families eating grass in a desperate attempt to survive as famine swept parts of the country.It has been marked by gross atrocities including ethnically motivated killing and rape, according to the United Nations and rights groups. The International Criminal Court said it was investigating alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.The village of Tarasin is located in the central Marrah Mountains, a volcanic area with a height of more than 3,000 meters (9,840 feet) at its summit. A world heritage site, the mountain chain is known for its lower temperature and higher rainfall than surrounding areas, according to UNICEF. It’s located more than 900 kilometers (560 miles) west of the capital city, Khartoum.Sunday’s landslide was one of the deadliest natural disasters in Sudan’s recent history. Hundreds of people die every year in seasonal rains that run from July to October. Last year’s heavy rainfall caused the collapse of a dam in the eastern Red Sea Province, killing at least 30 people, according to the UN.

PM said weighing sovereignty over parts of West Bank due to countries’ recognition of Palestine-Gazan media reports 11 killed, including children, in drone strike on water distribution point * Far-right minister calls to reevaluate IDF chief if he proves to be ‘weak on Gaza’SEP 2,25-By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will gather top ministers and aides for a discussion on the implications of international recognition of a Palestinian state on Thursday, according to Hebrew media reports.The small forum will also examine a range of possible responses to the expected wave of Western recognition at the UN later this month, including applying sovereignty over parts of the West Bank.Netanyahu will be joined by Defense Minister Israel Katz, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, according to the reports.

IAEA finds uranium traces linked to target of Israel’s 2007 Syrian nuclear strike-UN agency has long suspected nuclear activity at destroyed Deir Ezzor site, and renewed its inspections this year under new Syrian regime-By Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 4:53 pm-SEP 2,25

The UN nuclear watchdog said Monday that it has found traces of uranium in Syria in its investigation into a building Israel destroyed in 2007.The Deir Ezzor site, which included the building, was the target of an Israeli strike in September 2007 on Syria’s nuclear reactor. Israel did not officially take responsibility for the bombing for more than a decade, in part to avoid retaliation from Damascus. But Jerusalem was widely presumed to be behind the strike, and officially acknowledged it in 2018.The government of now-deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad had claimed the site was a conventional military base. But in a report to member states on Monday, the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency said it has long believed Deir Ezzor was probably an undeclared nuclear reactor.In a prior report released in 2011, the IAEA had concluded that the building was “very likely” to have been a reactor built in secret, and that Damascus should have declared it.Since then, the agency has been trying to come to a definitive conclusion, and under a renewed push last year, it was able to take environmental samples at three unnamed locations “that were allegedly functionally related” to Deir Ezzor, it said in the confidential report, seen by Reuters.The agency found “a significant number of natural uranium particles in samples taken at one of the three locations. The analysis of these particles indicated that the uranium is of anthropogenic origin, i.e. that it was produced as a result of chemical processing,” the report said.The term “natural” indicates the uranium was not enriched. The report did not come to a conclusion as to what the discovered traces mean.“The current Syrian authorities indicated that they had no information that might explain the presence of such uranium particles,” the report said, referring to the Islamist-led government that deposed Assad at the end of 2024. The current Syrian government granted the IAEA access to the site again in June this year to take more environmental samples.At a meeting the same month between IAEA chief Rafael Grossi and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, “Syria agreed to cooperate with the Agency, through full transparency, to address Syria’s past nuclear activities,” the report said.At that meeting, Grossi asked for Syria’s help in returning to Deir Ezzor itself “in the next few months in order to conduct further analysis, access relevant documentation and to talk to those involved in Syria’s past nuclear activities.”The report said the IAEA was still planning to visit Deir Ezzor and would evaluate the results of the environmental samples taken at the other site.“Once this process has been completed and the results evaluated, there will be an opportunity to clarify and resolve the outstanding safeguards issues related to Syria’s past nuclear activities and to bring the matter to a close,” it said.Pilots and crews who took part in the 2007 bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor take part in a ceremony marking the planes that participated in the operation, on September 6, 2018, at the Hatzerim Air Force Base in southern Israel. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit)-The 2007 strike was widely regarded as a success. It came decades after a 1981 Israeli strike on Iraq’s nuclear reactor and was followed earlier this year by Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites and ballistic missile program. That June strike sparked a 12-day air war and involved a US military intervention.The IDF has been deployed at nine posts inside southern Syria since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, mostly within a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the border between the countries.Israeli forces have been operating in areas up to 15 kilometers (some nine miles) deep into Syria, including Beit Jinn, aiming to capture weapons that Israel says could pose a threat to the country if they fall into the hands of hostile forces.

Belgian FM: 'This is not about punishing the Israeli people'Belgium to recognize Palestinian state at UN General Assembly, impose sanctions on Israel-Move to be formalized when hostages freed, Hamas out of power; far-right ministers, violent settlers, Hamas leaders to be banned; Brussels will back moves to suspend EU-Israel cooperation-By ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 11:59 am-SEP 2,25

Belgium will recognize the State of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly later this month, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot announced Tuesday, adding that sanctions will be imposed on the Israeli government.“Palestine will be recognized by Belgium at the UN session! And firm sanctions are being imposed against the Israeli government,” Prevot wrote on X.There was no comment from Israel regarding the announcement.The Belgian foreign minister said that the move would send a “strong political and diplomatic signal” to preserve the chances of a two-state solution, and “mark the condemnation of Israel’s expansionist ambitions, with its colonization programs and military occupations.”Prevot said that Belgium noted “the trauma that the Israeli people have suffered from the terrorist attacks by Hamas on October 7, 2023,” and that therefore “administrative formalization” of the recognition of Palestine will only be declared by royal decree “when the last hostage has been released and Hamas no longer exercises any form of governance over Palestine.”The announcement averted a political crisis in Belgium that had divided the governing coalition.In July, French President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize a Palestinian state at the UN meeting, due to be held from September 9 to 23 in New York.More than a dozen other Western countries have since said they would do the same. Israeli ministers have lambasted the move as a “reward for terror” in the wake of the October 7 onslaught.The United States said last week it will not allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to travel to New York for the UNGA.Prevot said the decision to recognize a Palestinian state came “in view of the humanitarian tragedy” unfolding in Gaza amid the war, with pressure needed on both Israel and Hamas.“In the face of the violence perpetrated by Israel in violation of international law, given its international obligations, including the duty to prevent any risk of genocide, Belgium had to take strong decisions to increase pressure on the Israeli government and Hamas terrorists,” he wrote.“This is not about punishing the Israeli people, but rather about ensuring that its government respects international and humanitarian law and taking action to try to change the situation on the ground,” he added.Prevot said additionally said that “any antisemitism or glorification of terrorism by Hamas supporters will also be condemned more vigorously.”Prevot said that 12 steps would be taken regarding sanctions on Israel and detailed a number of them: a ban on the import of products originating from settlements; a review of public procurement policies with Israeli companies; limitation of consular assistance to Belgians living in settlements deemed illegal under international law; possible judicial prosecutions; and bans on overflights and transit.It was unclear how a ban on overflights and transit would be implemented. According to Bloomberg, the ban was for the Israeli military.Additionally, Prevot said “two extremist Israeli ministers, various violent settlers and Hamas leaders” would be “persona non gratae” in Belgium. While he did not name the two ministers impacted, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister have been similarly banned from other countries.In addition, Belgium will support moves within the EU to suspend cooperation with Israel, including the suspension of the association agreement, research programs and technical cooperation. European Union foreign ministers remained sharply divided during a meeting in Copenhagen on Saturday over the war in Gaza, with some urging the bloc to exert significant economic pressure on Israel, while others firmly opposed such measures.Prevot also wrote that Belgium will join the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly eight-decade conflict and the ongoing war in Gaza. The plan would culminate in an independent, demilitarized Palestine living side by side peacefully with Israel, and their eventual integration into the wider Middle East region.In July, Arab and Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, signed the declaration in which they also condemned for the first time Hamas’s onslaught of October 7, 2023, and called on the terror group to release all the hostages it is holding, disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Strip. Seventeen countries, plus the 22-member Arab League and the entire European Union, threw their weight behind the text, agreed on at a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.Israel has been under mounting pressure to wrap up its campaign in Gaza, where the war has created a humanitarian crisis and devastated much of the territory.

WSJ: Officers posting in WhatsApp groups to recruit soldiers-Tens of thousands of reservists drafted ahead of Gaza City takeover, but turnout down-Many say they’ll show up but lament strain on families and collapsing businesses, call on Haredi men to share burden; over 300 sign letter vowing they won’t take part in ‘illegal war’By ToI Staff, Stav Levaton and Charlie Summers-Today, 5:26 pm-SEP 2,25

Tens of thousands of reservists were set to be drafted to the Israel Defense Forces Tuesday, in what was said to be the largest single call-up since right after the start of the war almost two years ago, though turnout was reportedly low, with fewer reservists showing up for duty.According to Hebrew-language media, the call-up — the first phase of a wider draft for the planned conquest of Gaza City — faced challenges with fewer reservists inclined to report for duty after nearly two years of war, repeat rounds of service, and a sense that the burden is not fairly shared among the population.Around 60,000 were set to be drafted in a number of waves for the operation, with some 40,000-50,000 ordered to show up for duty on Tuesday, one day after the start of the school year.Many reservists have reportedly requested exemptions, citing personal or financial reasons, and units are seeing lower turnout than in previous emergency call-ups. Hundreds have signed a letter vowing not to report for duty, with one calling the Gaza City operation “patently illegal.”Senior officers noted that even within regular battalions, company and platoon sizes have shrunk, while a significant portion of the reservists reporting were volunteers who were not organically part of the units.“There are fewer teams that have confirmed their arrival compared to previous times. The companies and platoons are less full — we have to wait and see who will arrive,” an unnamed officer told the Kan public broadcaster.The reservists — who will be away from home during the upcoming Jewish High Holidays period — were set to undergo training and preparation in the coming days, with some slated to replace regular forces stationed in Israel’s north and the West Bank as the IDF plans to eventually deploy four divisions into Gaza City.The Wall Street Journal reported that some senior officers have had to think outside the box in attempts to recruit enough soldiers.“I’m looking for combat soldiers, mainly medics and snipers, for an operation of 70 days starting on September 11. If there are reservists who are interested, please message me privately,” wrote one on a WhatsApp group for university students.Omer Ben Hemo of the Israeli Reservists — Generation of Victory organization called on ultra-Orthodox men to enlist in the army to help ease the burden.Some 80,000 ultra-Orthodox men aged between 18 and 24 are currently believed to be eligible for military service, but have not enlisted. The IDF has said it urgently needs 12,000 recruits, due to the strain on standing and reserve forces, throughout the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza and other military challenges.“With all the problems [Haredi men] could have in the army, the situation among the people and in the reserves and among the soldiers is difficult,” Ben Hemo told Channel 12 news.“If you are our brothers, you need to save us… It doesn’t make sense to do 300 days [of reserve service] a year. We are not regular troops, but reserve soldiers. We have family, businesses and studies — it shouldn’t look like this,” he said.Over 300 announce they will not report-On Tuesday, a group of more than 300 reservists opposed to the Gaza City conquest announced in a letter that they would not longer report for duty if called up to fight. The effort is affiliated with the left-wing anti-war group Standing Together.“We are over 365, and counting, soldiers who served during the war and have declared that we will not report for duty when called again,” Sgt. First Class (res.) Max Kresch said at a Tel Aviv press conference. “We refuse to take part in Netanyahu’s illegal war, and we see it as a patriotic duty to refuse and demand accountability from our leaders.”Kresch, a combat medic, said that the group of reservists and soldiers consists of the same people who rushed to the frontline during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack to protect Israel.“It is precisely from that same sense of duty that we are driven to refuse,” he declared.An officer in the Armored Corps named only as Hillel told Channel 12 that while it was not an easy decision to make, he ultimately decided to report for duty for the sake of the hostages and those who live near the Gaza border.“When you’re under the stretcher, even though your shoulder hurts terribly, and you’re screaming into the air, you know you can’t drop the stretcher, because there’s an injured comrade on it,” he said.However, he noted that the strain is also being felt by the families of those who have been called back for repeated rounds of service.“The price is getting heavier and heavier and you see it through the children. They are now starting back in the education system. I will be there on the first day [of the school year], but later on I won’t be there,” Hillel said.Dalit Kislev Spektor told the Wall Street Journal that a large number of men in her husband’s 150-man unit were now unemployed, divorced or facing financial ruin after months away from home.“I told him, ‘The war is political, because none of us believes in our leadership. If it was up to me, I would ask you not to go,’” Spektor told the Journal.Spektor, who leads a group called Ima Era (Wide-awake Mother), which brings together mothers of soldiers, also said that her husband had been deeply impacted when he had to identify the body of a fellow reservist who had died by suicide.Although the IDF publishes official suicide data only once a year, reported numbers point to a troubling continuation of last year’s rise in such deaths. According to the findings of internal military investigations published in a report last month, most recent suicides among Israeli soldiers were driven by psychological trauma from the ongoing war, including prolonged deployments in combat zones, witnessing harrowing scenes, and the loss of friends.Reservist Avshalom Zohar-Saar, who also received a call-up, told Channel 12 that it was a difficult decision to go as he didn’t believe he could trust the judgment of the country’s decision-makers.“I am angry at those who sent me. I am angry at the Israeli government for not clearly saying what we are doing and where,” he said. “Despite everything, I will go to serve, because I believe in the State of Israel and the importance of protecting the people of Israel.”The new military campaign in Gaza was initially estimated to last four to five months, though officials reportedly say civilian evacuations and the operational buildup are already taking longer than anticipated.Many commanders remain skeptical about the feasibility of achieving the operation’s ultimate objectives of securing the release of the 48 hostages and dismantling the remaining Hamas strongholds in the area.The plans to conquer Gaza City have drawn fierce opposition from hostages’ families who fear the planned operation will risk the lives of their loved ones, as well as an international outcry, with governments and humanitarian groups warning of potentially disastrous consequences for Gaza’s civilians. Some one million Palestinians are thought to be sheltering in Gaza City.IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir on Sunday warned ministers that the plan to conquer Gaza City would drag Israel into a full-fledged occupation of the Strip, according to leaked comments carried by Hebrew outlets.Zamir, who has previously been widely reported to oppose the Gaza City takeover plan, argued to ministers that the scheme lacked a coherent exit strategy and would pull Israel deeper into the Strip.He instead encouraged a hostage deal, telling cabinet members that “there is a framework on the table, [and] we must take it,” according to Channel 12, which said that, had Zamir not raised the issue, it would not have come up in the meeting.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly refused to hold a vote on a proposed hostage-ceasefire deal, saying it was “not on the table.”