GAZA (Dispatches) – An Israeli newspaper admitted on Sunday that more than 10,000 Zionist regime troops have been killed or wounded during over 300 days of the Gaza war.
The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that at least 10,000 Zionist troops have been killed or wounded during the 303 days of the war in Gaza.
The regime’s army has witnessed an increase in mental disorders and suicide among soldiers returning from the Gaza war, prompting them to initiate a new rehabilitation program.
It has been 303 days since the regime’s all-out war against the Gaza Strip led to the martyrdom, injury, and displacement of thousands of Palestinians. Despite this, the Palestinian resistance forces have consistently fought against the occupiers and inflicted casualties through various operations.
The Israeli army has been slow to report its casualties and deaths in an attempt to prevent protests and internal divisions.
On the economic front, the main index of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) fell to its lowest point since April at the start of weekly trading on Sunday, driven by fears of a potential war with Iran and Lebanon’s armed group Hezbollah.
In early trading, the TASE 35 index dropped 2.3% to 1,937 points, marking its lowest level since the last week of April, according to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
The poor performance of Wall Street indices on Friday further exacerbated the negative start for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, which has been under pressure since mid-July due to escalating tensions with Hezbollah and Iran.
The TASE 35 Index, also known as the TA-35, is a stock market index that tracks the performance of the 35 largest and most traded companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Israel.
Tensions are running high amid speculation that Iran is preparing a military response to the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh bigger than the one following an April attack on Iran’s Consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus.
Haniyeh was assassinated on Wednesday in Tehran, Iran’s capital. The assassination came a day after Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr was martyred in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.