The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have mobilized two additional reserve brigades ahead of a possible deployment to the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF said on Wednesday. The brigades had previously been deployed on Israel’s border with Lebanon. In recent weeks, however, they have been training for operations in the Gaza Strip. “The soldiers practiced combat techniques and learned the main insights and lessons from the fighting and ground maneuver in the Gaza Strip so far,” the IDF said in a statement. At the beginning of the Gaza war more than six and a half months ago, Israel …