{"id":291426,"date":"2024-07-17T07:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T07:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291426"},"modified":"2024-07-19T06:45:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T06:45:25","slug":"israel-sets-up-committee-to-deal-with-soldiers-post-traumatic-stress-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291426","title":{"rendered":"Israel sets up committee to deal with soldiers&#8217; post-traumatic stress disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 July 16, 2024\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Israel has set up a committee to meet\u00a0the needs of\u00a0soldiers suffering from mental health and\u00a0psychological problems\u00a0since the start of the regime\u2019s barbarous campaign in Gaza in early October 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Tuesday, the\u00a0regime&#8217;s\u00a0ministry for military affairs said the committee will be tasked with treating soldiers who have suffered mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement,\u00a0about 36 percent of the 9,400 injured have been suffering from mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>The rehabilitation division of the ministry estimates that by the end of the year, at least 5,600 will struggle with mental disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli media have reported a surge in mental health disorder among settlers and soldiers following Operation Al-Aqsa Storm by the Palestinian resistance fighters in October.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Israeli authorities said the number of disabled Israeli soldiers had surpassed the 70,000 mark for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>On June 7, 2024, Israeli soldier Eliran Mizrahi took his own life after he was called back to war while suffering from PTSD and two injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A research showed in March that over half a million of Israelis are at risk of developing PTSD\u00a0in the aftermath of the barbarous brutality in Gaza.Similarly, a report by Bloomberg earlier revealed the rapidly increasing number of injuries among Israeli soldiers generates \u201cinvisible costs\u201d for the campaign in Gaza<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2024\/07\/16\/729444\/israel-soliders-PTSD\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Israeli soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder has surged after Palestinian resistance fighters launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":286124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291428,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291426\/revisions\/291428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}