US says Israeli military troop reduction in south Gaza seems a 'rest and refit'

The IDF withdrew soldiers from Gaza so they could rest and regroup, US National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby told ABC’s This Week.

This is about “rest and refit for these troops that have been on the ground for four months,” Kirby said after Israel pulled Division 98 out of Gaza.

It’s “not necessarily, that we can tell, indicative of some coming new operation for these troops. They've been on the ground for four months. The word we're getting is they're tired, they need to be refit.”