The Israeli army’s losses continue on the fighting fronts in the Gaza Strip, and it has been reported that 46 soldiers were injured in battles with Palestinian resistance fighters since Thursday, 4 of whom are in serious condition, according to what Haaretz newspaper revealed.
However, the military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, questioned the numbers announced by the occupation army regarding the losses it suffers at the hands of the Palestinian resistance.
Al-Duwairi said, in an analysis of the military scene in Gaza, that the number provided by the occupation army is modest and does not represent reality compared to the videos shown by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, of destroying occupation vehicles. And ambushes were set up for his soldiers and other means.
The military and strategic expert cited the occupation army’s refusal to announce the dead man, which the Al-Qassam Brigades showed yesterday in a video.
The Al-Qassam Brigades published a photo of an Israeli soldier who was killed during the operation it carried out in the Jabalia area in the northern Gaza Strip on May 25, and Al-Qassam Brigades sent a message to the occupation army in which it said, “You know his identity well… Why do you lie to your audience?”
Al-Duwairi pointed out, in the same context, that there are five types of fighters in the Israeli army, and only one type is announced. The dual nationality who lives outside Israel is not announced, as are the Bedouins, Druze, and mercenaries.
In evidence that the occupation army does not announce the true numbers of its losses, what the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper announced is that the number of wounded among the army’s ranks is 20,000, including 8,300 whose wounds are serious. Al-Duwairi says that for every 3 wounded there is a dead person, which means that There are 7,500 dead in the ranks of the occupation army.
Regarding the reason for the occupation hiding its losses, Al-Duwairi said that the United States of America did not announce its real losses during its war on Iraq, nor did Russia in Ukraine, highlighting that announcing the real numbers of the dead, wounded, and disabled reflects on the morale of the soldiers, which is what the occupation army does not want.
With the same idea, Al-Duwairi recalled what Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper published earlier, that an internal poll in the Israeli army showed that only 42% of officers in permanent military service want to continue serving after the end of the war on the Gaza Strip.