WEST BANK (Dispatches) – A senior
Israeli intelligence officer has taken his own life by jumping from a high building, according to a report which raises concerns about the growing number of suicides within the ranks of the Zionist regime’s military and espionage apparatus.
Initial investigations asserted that the unnamed lieutenant decided to end his life as a result of personal problems, said the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network, citing a report by the Hebrew-language Israel Hayom daily newspaper.
The newspaper said there are undeniable links between the lieutenant’s suicide and the reasons that led to the death of an Israeli intelligence officer inside a military prison last June.
The Zionist officer was found in serious condition in his cell at the newly-opened Neve Tzedek prison on the night of May 16, 2021 and later pronounced dead in what military officials alleged was a suspected suicide.
Though an autopsy was performed, no official cause of death was determined.
The officer was described by people who worked with him as a computer prodigy, beginning to work in programming as a teenager.
Suicide remains the leading cause of death for Zionist officers, with at least 11 Zionist troops believed to have taken their own lives in 2021 and another two whose deaths are currently designated as accidents but which may also have been suicide, said Brigadier Geneneral Yoram Knafo, chief of staff of the Israeli army’s manpower directorate.