Most of the signatories to that letter are not currently serving in the reserves, Ynet noted
The letters have not called for a general refusal to serve but have sparked outrage in the government, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissing them as “noisy” anarchists
By not calling for a general refusal to serve, the recent wave of letters contrasts with statements released before the war protesting the government’s judicial overhaul plan
Those statements saw several groups of reservists, including from the IAF say they would refuse to serve under a regime they no longer viewed as democratic, with some refusing to report for duty when called upon in the months before the war
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Nevertheless, when the war broke out on October 7, 2023 reservists, including those who protested the government, enlisted en masse
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 59 hostages, including 58 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023 They include the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF
Hamas released 30 hostages — 20 Israeli civilians, five soldiers and five Thai nationals — and the bodies of eight slain Israeli captives during a ceasefire between January and March
The terror group freed 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023 and four hostages were released before that in the early weeks of the war In exchange, Israel has freed some 2,000 jailed Palestinian terrorists, security prisoners and Gazan terror suspects detained during the war
Eight hostages have been rescued from captivity by troops alive, and the bodies of 41 have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors and the body of a soldier who was killed in 2014
The body of another soldier killed in 2014 Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, is still being held by Hamas and is counted among the 59 hostages
