Hegseth orders hundreds of military commanders to Virginia for unprecedented meeting

Highly unusual gathering comes as War Secretary Hegseth wants to cut 20% of senior officers 

Morgan Phillips , Jennifer Griffin / Fox News 

The Pentagon next week is convening a meeting of top U.S. military leaders from across the globe. 

Multiple War Department officials confirmed to Fox News that top military commanders had been asked to fly to Virginia for a meeting next week, though the topic of the discussion is unclear. 

The Pentagon confirmed the meeting but did not offer details.

"The Secretary of War will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week," chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement. 

War Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered top military commanders to gather in Virginia next week.  (Fox News / The Will Cain Show)

A meeting of this size and scope is highly unusual and would usually take place on a secure video teleconference — around 800 generals and admirals are spread across the U.S. and world.

IDF evacuation of Gaza City reaches 700,000 civilians.

Although approximately 300,000 Palestinian civilians remain, the general population is continuing to evacuate.

The IDF has succeeded in evacuating over 700,000 Palestinian civilians from Gaza City as part of the recent invasion, up from around 550,000 earlier in the week and around 250,000 last week.

There are still around 300,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza City, but the clear trend now seems to show that as the ground force invasion expands, the general civilian population is evacuating.

It also seems so far that Hamas is mostly evacuating with them, given that the IDF is not vetting those who are evacuating and all of the fighting between the military and Hamas has been at most small skirmishes.

The IDF has also said that there are probably some more committed fighters hiding in tunnels and other concealed areas in order to carry out sporadic guerilla warfare against IDF forces, which have already caused a number of deaths of Israeli soldiers.

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