The Number Of Israeli Soldiers Who Died Since The War In Gaza Broke Out Last Year Reaching 10 Thousand People
JAKARTA - Israeli media on Sunday said the number of Israeli soldiers killed since the latest conflict in the Gaza Strip broke out last year had reached at least 10,000 people.
The Yetioth Ahronoth newspaper said about 1,000 troops were transferred every month to the Ministry of Defense's rehabilitation department due to injuries suffered in the Gaza war.
"The army suffered at least 10,000 soldiers who were killed or injured during months of fighting in the Gaza Strip," the daily said, quoted by Anadolu on August 5.
The newspaper criticized Knesset (Israeli parliament) for taking summer leave from July 22 to mid-October without issuing a law to extend military service.
"There is no such situation in the history of Israeli war in which soldiers fought within enemy territory, in unfavorable conditions, for 10 consecutive months," the mother of an Israeli soldier in the Nahal Brigade told Yedioth Ahronoth.
According to the newspaper, female soldiers on duty in Israel's occupied Syrian Golan Heights were unexpectedly notified of the extension of their additional four months of service.
Israel, which ignores UN Security Council resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire, has faced international condemnation amid its brutal attack that has continued in Gaza since last October's attack by Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
Nearly 10 months after Israel's war, much of Gaza's territory was devastated amid a crippling blockade on food, clean water and medicine.
In Gaza, medical sources said Israel's attacks on the Palestinian enclave in the past 24 hours left 33 people dead and 118 others injured, quoted from WAFA.
Meanwhile, Gaza's health authorities confirmed on Sunday that the death toll of Palestinians as a result of Israeli attacks since the conflict broke out on October 7, 2023, had reached 39,583 people and 91,398 others were injured. The majority of victims were women and children.