About 100 Israeli soldiers were seriously injured in their eyes due to not using protective glasses during the battles waged by the occupation army in the Gaza Strip, according to what the official media reported yesterday evening, Wednesday.
The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that these injuries to the soldiers’ eyes resulted from explosions, gunshots, and flying shrapnel, as a result of not wearing protective glasses that protect the eyes, noting that between 10 and 15% of these injuries led to blindness in one or both eyes.
The Broadcasting Authority explained that these soldiers neglected to use protective glasses during military activity. The occupation army denied that there was a shortage of protective glasses, and said that it was working to increase awareness campaigns among soldiers to use them.
The authority indicated that Soroka Hospital in the city of Beersheba (south) alone received 40 soldiers wounded in the eye, noting that during the last three days alone the hospital received 5 seriously wounded soldiers in the eye, and some of them underwent difficult surgeries.
Given the large number of eye injuries among Israeli soldiers in Gaza, Soroka led a donation campaign to purchase protective glasses for the soldiers, according to the same source.
As of Wednesday evening, the death toll of the occupation army since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on the 7th of last October had risen to 411, including 10 during the past 24 hours, according to official sources.