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Israel’s Exhausted Soldiers Complicate Plans for Gaza Assault

Worn down by hundreds of days of military service, fewer Israeli reservists are turning up for duty. Others are refusing to fight in a war they no longer believe in.

© Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times

Israeli military reservists and veterans, demanding an immediate end to the war in Gaza and the return of hostages, demonstrated in Tel Aviv earlier this month.
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