The mobilization of IDF reserve soldiers has already begun, in preparation for Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and northern West Bank this summer, a senior IDF officer said Monday.
Addressing the Knesset's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, the senior officer noted that all of the army's reserve combat units will be called up for military duty this summer.
Reserves have been mobilized, the officer said, to free up soldiers in regular service to train for the evacuation. It is the regular service soldiers who will carry out the actual evacuation, while reservists take over their standard duties.
The committee's main guest, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, asked the settlers slated for evacuation to voluntarily move their children elsewhere before the implementation of the pullout in order not to expose them to unnecessary trauma.

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