AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The Israeli regime’s ministry for military affairs says more than 10,000 of the regime’s forces have been afflicted with either physical or mental trauma during Tel Aviv’s now-eleven-months-long war on the Gaza Strip.
The ministry’s rehabilitation department reported the information on Wednesday.
The department said it had received around 10,056 forces, including some 6,838 reservists, since the beginning of the war on October 7 last year.
As much as 37 percent of the forces have received physical trauma to their limbs, while 35% are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other mental disorders caused by trauma.
According to Israeli military data, more than 300 Israeli forces have also died during the war.
The regime launched the aggression in response to al-Aqsa Storm, a retaliatory operation staged by Gaza’s resistance groups.
The brutal military onslaught has so far claimed the lives of nearly 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The regime, however, releases the number of its casualties very occasionally.
Observers say the regime underreports the fatalities to retain the morale of its forces and restrain backlash from those demanding a ceasefire that could enable the return of those who were taken captive during al-Aqsa Storm.
The Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has repeatedly said it would release the remaining captives in exchange for complete cessation of the Israeli aggression and the regime’s full withdrawal. It has also conditioned their release on the return of the displaced people, an end to the siege that has been imposed by Tel Aviv on Gaza, and initiation of the coastal sliver’s reconstruction process.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, nevertheless, vowed to keep up the war until, what he has called, “elimination” of Hamas, a prospect that has been ruled out as impossible by the group and even some Israeli officials and Tel Aviv’s own allies.
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