About 12% of IDF Troops Who Served in Gaza Deemed Unfit Over PTSD: Report

Israel set to carry out 'Operation Gideon’s Chariots'

A newly released Tel Aviv University study found that about one in eight IDF soldiers who served in Gaza suffer from PTSD and are deemed unfit to return to the fight, according to a report in Haaretz.

The report noted that the study was released just as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video message posted on X that the next military operation will not be “in-and-out.”

“We’ll call up reserves to come, hold territory—we’re not going to enter and then exit the area, only to carry out raids afterward. That is not the plan. The intention is the opposite,” he said.

Lawrence Wilkerson, retired US Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, said in an interview with “Dialogue Works” that, in many cases, the troops removed from the battlefield for issues like PTSD are the ones “who have a conscience, otherwise they wouldn’t have gotten post-traumatic stress…what we used to call battle fatigue.”

“What you’re leaving are your killers; your murderers. That’s what you’re leaving on the battlefields, and that’s what phenomenon is affecting Israel right now,” he said.