Protracted and unprecedented Arab resistance has depleted Israeli troop and reservist forces and forced Tel Aviv to seek out unconventional methods – including the recruitment of foreign mercenaries – to sustain Israel's weary military and escalatory war goals.
Facing increasing domestic pressure to reveal the true extent of their military losses in Gaza and Lebanon, Israeli officials have released figures that are likely to only reveal minimal numbers. The data claims that since the beginning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October 2023, around 12,000 soldiers and officers have been injured or forced into rehabilitation under the occupation state’s Ministry of Defense.
This includes 910 wounded during what Israel calls a "limited ground maneuver" launched by Tel Aviv on the Lebanese border, in addition to the deaths of over 760 officers and soldiers and 140 left completely disabled. These admissions, although selective, have stirred growing skepticism within Israeli society, already at its most politically divided since the inception of the state in 1948.
The struggle to maintain power
Following the sacking of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, questions are mounting: how does Israel plan to sustain its fighting force amidst the Lebanese resistance's deadly daily attacks on them?
Opposition against compulsory military service from religious groups, particularly the Haredim, has compounded the army's challenges – so has the removal of Gallant, an army dropout rate soaring above 17 percent, a wave of reverse immigration that has reached one million people in a single year, the highest since 1948, and increasing reluctance among shell-shocked reservists to return to the horror of battlefields in Gaza and the Lebanese border.
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11/15 — Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz Has Approved The Issuing Of 7,000 Draft Orders To The Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) Beginning Next Week. The First 1,000 Will Be Sent Out On Sunday.
11/2 — Haaretz: Netanyahu Is Advancing A Compromise That Would Save His Coalition Without Fixing The Existing Imbalance In The Burden Of IDF Service.
The main obstacle remains Gallant, but sources in Likud say Netanyahu won't hesitate to replace him if he doesn't fold
10/29 — Haaretz: It's Time For Israel To Grant The Black Hebrew Israelite Community The Full Rights It Deserves
10/29 — Israel’s Defence Minister Gallant Admits Mounting Casualties / Fatalities In The IDF:
"...we are in need of more soldiers.”
10/21 — 'Everyone Not Dead Or Injured Is Mentally Damaged': Israeli Army Hit By Silent Crisis
8/11 — Three Israeli Army Refusers: ‘We Will Not Participate In Genocide’
7/8 — Three Israeli Army Reservists Explain Why They Refuse to Continue Serving in Gaza
7/3 — Israel Approves Largest West Bank Land Grab in Three Decades..
8/8 — ‘We’ll Die Before Enlisting’: Ultra-Orthodox Israelis Storm Army Base
6/30 — Thousands of Anti Zionist Jews are protesting Israels new attempt to draft them in the Israeli Army.
6/6 — Social Upheaval Will Lead Israel To Collapse in Coming Years: Study
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