10,000 Israeli soldiers are urgently needed 

The Israel Radio and Television Organization quoted Yoav Gallant, the Minister of War of this regime, as saying that the Israeli army urgently needs 10,000 additional soldiers.

News network N12 reported that Gallant told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that 4,800 of the needed people could be recruited into the army from Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community.

Last week, Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the army must start conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men. According to some internal laws, the men of the ultra-Orthodox community were exempted from military service for religious reasons.

According to the reports of the Zionist media, the occupation army’s ground military attacks on Gaza and intense clashes with the Palestinian resistance have led to psychological crises among Israeli soldiers. In this regard, the Zionist newspaper Jerusalem Post, in a report dated June 15, talked about the post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by thousands of occupation soldiers due to participating in the Gaza war.

Jerusalem Post quoted the Zionist organization Nafassim (a movement that works to provide comprehensive mental health support to reservists) as confirming that thousands of IDF soldiers have returned from Gaza suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. This organization added that more than 10,000 reservists have requested psychological services.

Translator: Azam Purkand