5/31/2024–|Last updated: 5/31/202405:48 PM (Mecca time)
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said 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, compared to 49% recorded in August last year.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth described these data as disturbing and interesting, and that they stunned the leadership of the Israeli army and considered them a worrying decline in the willingness of permanent officers to continue their military service.
At the same time, the newspaper noted an increase in officers’ requests to retire from the army during the war.
The newspaper attributed the reasons for the officers’ dissatisfaction to the long duration of the war, the damage to the officers’ family life, and inappropriate compensation, in addition to the pressure and responsibility that some jobs entail.
Yedioth Ahronoth added, “It is not surprising that there is a gap between the military system and the private sector, but the double gap represents anger and resentment among those who serve in the army.”
The newspaper quoted an unnamed senior Israeli army officer as saying: “The permanent officers feel responsible for the harsh consequences of the war. The feeling of failure haunts the officers and they do not want to serve in a failed apparatus.”
Since last October 7, Israel has continued its devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 118,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.
Israel continues this war, ignoring a Security Council resolution demanding that it stop the fighting immediately, and orders from the Court of Justice demanding that it stop its attack on Rafah, and take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and “improve the humanitarian situation” in Gaza.