Walla: 4000 Israeli soldiers had been disabled since the beginning of the Gaza war
On Friday, Israeli Walla website revealed that 4,000 Israeli soldiers had been disabled since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, suggesting that the number would rise to 30,000.
According to Walla website, Israel is preparing to receive a large number of disabled Israeli army soldiers, and 100 days after the war, it has already been recognized that about 4,000 soldiers have disabilities.
There are indications that the estimated number of disabled soldiers will reach about 30,000.
In this context, Walla website considered that the Hamas attack on October 7 led Israel into a war that it had never witnessed before in terms of the number of wounded soldiers, but more importantly, the injuries are very serious.
Walla said, “Thanks to the dedicated and high-quality care provided by rescue and medical teams, those seriously injured survive”.
The Israeli army doesn’t provide all the information about the wounded to the public, for fear that this will lead to a decline in people’s morale, according to Walla website.
Currently, about 4,000 disabled soldiers have been recognized according to Classification 3, which means that they are entitled to all the treatments and rights enjoyed by a disabled person in the Israeli army without being officially recognized as such.
The injured soldiers are paid salaries and are treated even without having to prove anything.
Meanwhile, their rehabilitation process will begin as soon as possible to bring them back to life.
Walla website quoted Idan Kaliman, head of the Organization for the Disabled in the Israeli Army, as saying that “For every physical therapist we worked with, we now require four to meet the volume of wounded, and the same applies to all other therapeutic professions”.
Kaliman added: “We need to triple our strength at once for the benefit of our soldiers and we are ready to face this challenge… I have been in the regime for 30 years… I have never encountered such a number of wounded and their condition is very serious”.
Kaliman pointed out that there were many wounded people who had their limbs amputated, who were blinded, and paralyzed.
The Israeli army announced the recruitment of 360,000 reserve soldiers in the war against the Gaza Strip since October 7, while the ground operation began on the 27th of the same month.
As of Friday morning, the number of officers and soldiers killed in the ranks of the Israeli army since the beginning of the war reached 520, including 186 since the beginning of the ground war in the Gaza Strip, according to officially announced Israeli army data.
