Israeli Channel 12 said that a sergeant in the Givati Brigade in the Israeli army died of a heart attack after soldiers under his command were killed in the Gaza Strip.
The channel added that the Israeli army did not acknowledge the death of the sergeant, who was released from reserve service in the army.
She stated that those close to him confirmed that his death resulted from his “inability to bear what he saw in Gaza.”
The Israeli occupation army revealed on Monday evening that about 9,000 of its soldiers had received “psychological assistance” since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, and about a quarter of them had not returned to combat.
According to a statement by the Army Medical Corps, reported by Channel 12 and Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, “about 13,000 regular and reserve soldiers in total needed accompaniment or medical treatment at some level during the fighting, and thousands of them were injured in the battles.”
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Earlier on Monday, the occupation army announced that 19 soldiers and officers had been wounded during the past 24 hours in the battles in the Gaza Strip, as clashes continued in the center and south of the Strip with continued bombing.
According to the latest data published by the army yesterday, Monday, the number of wounded soldiers and officers has risen to 1,042 since the start of its ground attack on Gaza on October 27, including 228 seriously wounded, while the total number has reached 2,438 wounded since the outbreak of the war on the 7th of October. Same month.