29/8/2024–|Last update: 8/29/202402:40 AM (Makkah Time)
Israeli media reported that 20 Israeli soldiers refused to return to fighting in the Gaza Strip. GazaWhile some of them were notified that they would be subject to a military trial if they did not return.
The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority said yesterday, Wednesday, that “about 20 soldiers in the (Israeli) infantry brigade asked not to return to fighting in Gaza this week.”
She added, “About 10 soldiers received notice on Tuesday that they would be brought to trial for refusing a military order if they did not agree to return to the Strip.”
The organization quoted some soldiers as saying that after 10 months of fighting in Gaza, they were no longer able to return, but they were ready to carry out other missions.
According to the organization, “similar voices about the difficulties come from additional battalions in other brigades fighting in the sector.”
She quoted the families of some of these soldiers as saying that their sons “are forced to participate in the ground maneuver in Gaza, or they will go to prison. This is unbelievable.”
The families added that “there are only a few soldiers left in their company (their sons' company) who are able to fight. This is the time for us, the parents, to help them confront the system that does not care about them.”
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In response, an Israeli army spokesman told the agency that “army commanders are doing their utmost to support and assist soldiers in continuing to perform their duties in various operational missions,” adding that “no punitive measures will be taken against soldiers, including imprisonment.”
And on a daily basis announces Qassam Brigades -The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation)- Israeli soldiers were killed or injured in special operations in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli officials have also acknowledged on more than one occasion that the army is engaged in a “fierce battle” with Palestinian resistance fighters in the Strip and is “paying a heavy price.”
According to the latest update published on the occupation army’s website on Wednesday evening, the number of its dead since the beginning of the war on Gaza on October 7th has reached 704 officers and soldiers, including 339 since the Israeli invasion of the Strip on the 27th of the same month.
While the number of injured officers and soldiers since the beginning of the war has reached 4,398, including 2,262 since the beginning of the ground invasion, according to the same data.
With American support, Israel waged a devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 134,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction.