Three Israeli Soldiers Kill Themselves in Under 2 Weeks

Three Israeli soldiers committed suicide in under two weeks after serving in the war Gaza.

This is a harrowing made increasingly so after Israel’s Channel 12 stated that an Israeli soldier took his life after serving in the war in Gaza that in now reaching its second year.

Meanwhile the Israeli Haaretz daily stated that 15 Israeli soldiers have killed themselves since the beginning of 2025.

This is an unprecedented for the Israeli army and well above in the previous years. For in 2024, 21 soldiers committed suicide after serving in the Gaza war which started soon after 7 October, 2023.

The Israeli newspaper stated most of those that took their lives were reserve soldiers that entered the army recently and after the horrors they saw in the Gaza battlefield and which is increasingly affecting their psychological state of mind.

The Israeli Institute for Security Affairs is warning the Israeli soldiers are facing the toughest battles in the different areas of Gaza and who are facing strenuous resistance not only from Hamas fighters but those from different Palestinian factions.

The Institute states the Israeli army in Gaza is facing the biggest crisis in human resources in its history and needs tens of thousands of extra soldiers because of the intensity of fighting on the Gaza battlefields.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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Palestinian Woman Dies Waiting For an Ambulance at Israeli Checkpoint

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July 19, 2026

CROSSFIREARABIA – A 30-year-old Palestinian woman died because Israeli soldiers wouldn’t allow an ambulance to pass at an electronic checkpoint leading to the village of Sinjil which is located north-east of Ramallah. According to Sinjil Mayor Mutaz Tawafsha the ambulance had to wait more than 30 minutes before it was allowed to pass the checkpoint by which time, Sujood Fuqhaa, who had suffered from a heartache, died. Tawafsha said in such cases time is of the essence and young mother of two, could have been taken to hospital and treated if the ambulance had not been stopped by the Israelis, blaming the iron security checkpoints for the continual deaths of the people of Sinjil. Her death comes at a town when Sinjil was subjected to a raid by 100 Israeli settlers recently according to local Palestinian sources. The settlers fired arms on the local people and set fire to their crops. This is just the latest for Sanjil is continually raided under the protection of the Israeli army according to the Palestine Information Center.

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