Urgent| Israel announces its death toll… and suicide cases it has never witnessed in its history
For the first time since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the Zionist entity in occupied Palestine, the occupation army published its official and current death toll, which amounted to 891 dead since the Hamas attack on Israel, which launched a genocidal campaign against Gaza in the south. To Lebanon, one year and three months ago.
The toll, which also includes those killed in accidents or suspected suicide cases, is among the highest and most dangerous in the history of the occupying state. , the most serious of the decade that preceded the war, during which 152 deaths were recorded, including in Operation Rock Ethan in the summer of 2014.
This is actually the largest number of Dead since the October 6 War, 1973.
Of the 891 war dead, 528 were killed in 2023, of whom 512 were in operational operations and most of them around October 7 "329 soldiers were killed according to the ACA on that day" ; – Including reserve unit soldiers. In 2024, 226 Dead.
According to suicide data, in 2023, there were 17 suicide cases, including 7 mandatory soldiers, 4 permanent soldiers, and 6 reserve soldiers, compared to 14 cases in total in 2022. Also, most of the soldiers who committed suicide in In 2023, they ended their lives after the outbreak of war.
In 2024, suicide data increased to 21 cases. Suspected of suicide, including 7 conscripts, 2 permanent recruits, and 12 reserves. They are all men.
The number of deaths in various accidents has been on the rise throughout the war: 9 people died in road accidents in 2023, including 4 civilians and 5 military personnel.
And in 2024, It has already increased to 20 deaths due to traffic accidents, 17 of which were in civilian circumstances and 3 in military circumstances – similar to the jump in the number of traffic accidents in Israel last year
In addition to the outbreak of war, 65 were wounded in various operational incidents, 60 of which were in the Gaza arena and 5 in the Lebanese arena. The operational incident could be a bilateral shooting or the result of the use of weapons by the occupation forces.
As for dealing with the increase in the number of suicide cases since the beginning of the war, the Israeli army says that it is preparing for a greater increase later, in the coming years, With the end of the fighting and the end of the war: the occupying army has recruited about 800 veterans since the outbreak of the war, established a new mental health center distributed to mental clinics throughout the country and increased the mental envelope of the soldiers, focusing on the population Combatants.
An Israeli defect
At the same time, the Israeli army admits that there is still difficulty, for For example, in measuring the mental state and medical fitness of a reservist soldier, and certainly one who returned to service at an advanced age after a long period in which he had not served.
The occupation army said: Like thousands of Reserve soldiers who They were reabsorbed at this time into David’s new squad, aged between 40 and 60. “It is clear that the burdens of war have affected the data and condition of the soldiers, we are talking about burdens that we have not seen for decades.”
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