Israel maintains military pressure on Gaza City ahead of planned offensive

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Lili Bayer

CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli military maintained its pressure on Gaza City with heavy bombardments overnight, residents said, ahead of a Thursday meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers on plans to seize the enclave’s largest city.

The military a day earlier called up 60,000 reservists in a sign that the government was pressing ahead with the plan, despite international condemnation. Although one military official said…