The Israeli occupation army revealed, on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, that about 30,000 soldiers have called its mental health hotline since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
The occupation army said in a statement that about 85% of the soldiers who were forced to receive psychological treatment services returned to war again.
The statement also indicated that “about 200 soldiers were discharged from the army due to the psychological problems they suffered,” due to the war.
The occupation army added in its statement: “The medical staff in the Technology and Logistics Division is opening a new mental health services center, which includes a permanent family center, a combat response unit, and a post-traumatic stress treatment clinic for soldiers,” without specifying its location.
In this context, the army indicated that “the Army Medical Corps operates a telephone center 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to provide initial response to soldiers,” according to the same source.
In early February, Yehal Lifshitz, head of the clinical department for mental illness in the Israeli army, told the Hebrew Broadcasting Authority (official) that about “3,000 regular and reserve soldiers have been examined by mental health officers since the beginning of the war on Gaza.”
The Israeli army announced the recruitment of 360,000 reserve soldiers since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip.
The army repeatedly announces that a number of its members have been exposed to various health crises, including psychological and neurological problems, in addition to physical injuries resulting from battles and the spread of some infectious diseases.
Meanwhile, Israeli army data revealed, on Wednesday, that 26 soldiers were injured during the past 24 hours.
Based on the data that Anatolia viewed on the army’s website, the number of officers and soldiers wounded since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip, on October 7, increased to 3,007, up from 2,981 on Tuesday, meaning 26 were injured since yesterday.
Data indicate that 468 were seriously injured, 793 were moderately injured, and 1,746 were slightly injured.
It shows that among the wounded, 1,429 were injured in ground battles in Gaza since October 27, an increase from 1,421 on Tuesday.
It was found that 296 of them were seriously injured, 477 were moderately injured, and 656 were slightly injured.
Based on the data, 324 officers and soldiers are still receiving treatment in hospitals. They are 38 in serious condition, 207 in moderate condition, and 79 in minor condition.
While 582 officers and soldiers have been killed since the outbreak of the war, including 242 in ground battles, according to the army website.
The ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has left tens of thousands of victims, most of them children and women, massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe that has pushed a quarter of the Strip’s population to the brink of famine, according to Palestinian and UN data.
For the first time since its establishment in 1948, Israel is being tried before the International Court of Justice, the highest judicial body in the United Nations. On charges of committing “genocide” crimes against the Palestinians.
2024-02-28 18:35:06
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