At a time when the Israeli occupation forces continue their daily massacres in the Gaza Strip, dozens of occupation soldiers prefer to commit suicide instead of on the battlefield, especially since a number of young people were forced to conscript as a result of the events in Gaza. Today (Thursday), the Israeli occupation army revealed the losses among its soldiers, since the beginning of the war on Gaza until now, and 891 soldiers died during 2023-2024, while suicide cases rose to 38 soldiers.
The advisor at the Nasser Military Academy in Cairo, Major General Wael Rabie, believes that the suicide operations announced by the Israeli occupation army are much less than what exists on the ground, but the occupation is trying to impose a policy of covering up suicide incidents among its ranks, so that a state of chaos does not occur. Anxiety and fear among the people, indicating that the suicide rate increased during the past year 2024, most of which occurred after military operations in the Gaza Strip. Rabie told Okaz: There are hundreds of occupation soldiers suffering from multiple psychological and neurological diseases, who participated in that hideous war, in light of the expansion of the military occupation operations, not only in Gaza, but also extending to the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria, and this aims to completely destabilize the security and stability of the region. Comprehensive, and the long war required that Israeli soldiers remain in their military ranks without any rest period, which put great pressure on them. The military expert explained that the existence of a hotline announced by the Israeli army forces, which was inaugurated last year 2024, and which receives more than 4,000 calls daily from its soldiers, for various psychological and medical reasons, confirms the extent of the health crises and daily losses that the occupation soldiers suffer, and reflects In the end, they suffer from a state of physical and psychological exhaustion, especially with the prolonged war, and the lack of a specific time to end that war in Gaza.
He pointed out that the Israeli army is facing a shortage among its forces, as a result of the continuation of the war on several fronts, which has led to the call-up of reserve forces, and some refuse to respond to the call despite the great financial temptations and tickling the feelings of young people, calling on the international community to quickly and urgently intervene to alleviate the suffering of the children. The Palestinian people, implementing UN resolutions calling for stopping the genocide in Gaza, and accelerating the entry of life-saving aid.