WEST BANK (Dispatches) – After 20 months of genocide on the Gaza Strip, the Zionist regime is suffering from an acute manpower shortage and has turned to women to replace key roles.
Prior to the regime’s assault on the besieged Gaza strip, female soldiers were largely confined to duties such as staffing checkpoints across the illegally occupied West Bank. However, the protracted military campaign has pushed women onto the frontlines in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.
In May, the Israeli military acknowledged a shortfall exceeding 10,000 troops. The crisis is compounded by revelations that over 9,000 reserve troops involved in the Gaza genocide are now undergoing treatment for psychological trauma. Israeli media reports have highlighted the toll the war has taken on soldiers, further straining the military’s capacity to sustain prolonged campaign.
One in five combat troops in the Israeli military is now said to be female with women entering into more dangerous combat zones to make up for the shortage of fighters. 
In response, the Israeli regime is now also targeting ultra-Orthodox radical men for conscription. 
In a related development, forty-one Israeli soldiers announced on Tuesday that they will not continue their military service, describing the ongoing genocide in Gaza as a war fought to protect Netanyahu’s political survival rather than to secure the Zionist regime or rescue captives, Anadolu Agency reported.
The soldiers from Israel’s spy and cyber warfare units sent a signed letter to Netanyahu, war minister Israel Katz, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, and other Cabinet members expressing their refusal, according to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth.
The signatories wrote under the heading “Soldiers for the Captives” that the renewed military campaign in Gaza is not a “security decision but a political one.”
They criticized the decision to expand military operations in the strip, asserting that the aim is to “preserve the ruling coalition, not protect Israeli citizens.”
The soldiers said they would not participate in “Netanyahu’s survival war.” Some pledged to make their refusal public.