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Israeli occupation murdered an 11-month-old Palestinian baby Maisara Abu Al-Oaf from Jabalia, northern Gaza. Maisara is among dozens of infants who were born during the genocide and killed during the genocide.
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Last Wednesday evening, the occupation aircraft bombed the house of the Al-Arouqi family in the Abu Iskandar area in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood north of Gaza City, killing 25 of its residents, including children. The young man, Muhammad Yousef Al-Arouqi, was the only survivor of the massacre.
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Israel’s new Defense Minister, Israel Katz, issued a statement announcing the end of administrative detention orders against colonial settlers in the occupied West Bank, describing it as a “severe measure” against them.
Such arrest warrants are rare, but Katz, known for his far-right views, is the first defense minister to refuse issuing administrative detention orders for illegal settlers.
This decision has received support from far-right Israeli leaders such as Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, despite further reinforcing the perception of unequal treatment between Israelis and Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
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At least six Israeli soldiers have taken their own lives in recent months, the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth revealed on Friday, citing severe psychological distress caused by prolonged wars in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon as the primary cause.
The investigation suggests the actual number of suicides may be higher, as the Israeli military has yet to release official figures, despite a promise to disclose them by the end of the year.
The report highlights a broader mental health crisis within the Israeli army. Thousands of soldiers have sought help from military mental health clinics or field psychologists, with approximately a third of those affected showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
According to the investigation, the number of soldiers suffering psychological trauma may exceed those with physical injuries from the war.
The daily cites experts as saying the full extent of this mental health crisis will become clear once military operations are completed and troops return to normal life.
In March, Lucian Tatsa-Laur, head of the Israeli military’s mental health department, told Haaretz that approximately 1,700 soldiers had received psychological treatment.
Multiple reports have since emerged indicating that thousands of troops are suffering from mental health issues owing to extended deployments in Gaza and southern Lebanon.
Regional tension has escalated due to Israel’s brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has killed over 44,000 people, mostly women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.
The second year of the genocide in Gaza has drawn growing international condemnation, with figures and institutions labeling the attacks and blocking of aid deliveries as a deliberate attempt to destroy a population.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its deadly war on Gaza.
In a landmark move, the International Criminal Court on Thursday announced it had issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over war crimes in Palestinian territories, including Gaza.
The conflict has spread to Lebanon, with Israel launching deadly strikes across the country in an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of the Gaza war.
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The Israeli daily, Yedioth Ahronoth has stated that six more Israeli soldiers who have fought in Gaza and Lebanon for an “extended period of time” have committed suicide.
The breaking news, made Friday night, is now trending on the social media.
Israeli soldiers taking away their lives is not a new phenomenon but news of this kind has increased over the last year during the Israeli genocide on Gaza and now Lebanon.
In late October a CNN report suggested Israeli soldiers returning from fighting in Gaza are “plagued by suicide”.
This is because they are suffering from psychological traumas as a result of both of what they have seen in Gaza and the things they did to civilians during their military service there.
In testimonies to CNN Israeli soldiers have revealed the horror’s of Israeli operations, testifying that troops had to run over dead and/or Palestinians “in the hundreds.” They speak of “gruesome” sights with one telling CNN “when you see a lot of meat outside and blood…both ours and theirs, then it really affects you when you eat.”
These scenes have become too much for Israeli soldiers despite the fact there are only sketchy figures of how many have actually taken away their lives but the figures are likely too be much higher taking into account of the Israeli military censors.
However, reports are regularly made about the thousands of Israeli soldiers requiring psychological treatment in Israeli hospital after serving in Gaza and now in Lebanon.
Haaretz reported back in May 10 Israeli soldiers took away their lives rather than go back to serving in the slaughter on Gaza.
And later on frequent cases of Israeli soldiers committing suicide rather than having to go back and continue fighting where the possibility of getting killed was very real are frequently highlihted.
Back in July there was the case of the reserve soldier who took away his life on Nahariya beech, north of Israel.
Rather than go back, he decided to end his life. And then there was the case of Santiago Ovadia, no doubt a mercenary judging from his name and who took away his life because of not being able to take it anymore.
Israeli soldiers are under much pressure in Gaza and now Lebanon which they have been fighting there since 1 October, 2024 and like in Gaza, are getting killed and injured.
Israeli soldiers are fatigued but are being pushed to fight by their military Generals and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Despite the noises of protests they are making – through the media, sending letters of protests, refusing to serve in the army and even fleeing abroad never to return, their political masters insist that Israeli army must keep fighting.
