Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak expanded on Friday the call-up of reserve soldiers, a spokesman said, as Israel pushed ahead with a major offensive against terrorists in Gaza. 

"The defense minister has this evening ordered the mobilization of new reserve forces," Josh Hantman told AFP shortly after a rocket fired from Gaza hit the city of Gush Etzion near Jerusalem and another landed in the sea by central Tel Aviv.

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