Israeli soldier commits suicide due to repercussions of genocide in Gaza

The Hebrew news website Walla reported on Sunday that an Israeli reserve soldier committed suicide as a result of the repercussions of the genocide being waged by Tel Aviv in the Gaza Strip.

The website said, "Soldier Daniel Edri (24 years old), who served in the reserve forces in Gaza and Lebanon, ended his life after a long struggle with psychological trauma, and the loss of two of his friends in the attacks of October 7, 2023."

He explained that "Adri" was found dead in a forest near the city of Safed (north), after repeated attempts to obtain psychological treatment, to no avail.

The website did not specify when the dead soldier's body was found, but quoted his mother as saying, "He could no longer bear it. He was complaining of recurring visions of dead bodies and the smell of death."

According to the same source, the soldier's family is demanding that he be buried with a military funeral in recognition of his service, but the authorities did not immediately agree.

The website noted an increase in the number of soldiers committing suicide due to the repercussions of Israel's ongoing war of extermination in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Hebrew newspaper "Israel Hayom" reported that 21 Israeli soldiers took their own lives in 2024.

Last May, the privately owned newspaper Haaretz reported that 42 soldiers had committed suicide since the start of the war of extermination on Gaza in October 2023.

According to the latest statistics released by the Israeli military in January, 28 soldiers have been killed since the outbreak of the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, in incidents described as "suspected suicides."

With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 193,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and a famine that has killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.