Alwaght- The number of the Israeli forces who have been injured in the invasion of Gaza has reached to the unprecedented 3,160, according to army data.
The spokesman of the Israeli occupation army claimed that since the beginning of the Gaza war, 3,160 soldiers of this regime have been injured, of which 490 soldiers are in critical condition.
According to Daniel Hagari, 1,523 of these soldiers were injured during ground clashes in Gaza.
The number was released after additional 8 were injured on Thursday, according to sources.
The Israeli army had earlier announced the death of 597 its forces since the beginning of the war, of which 253 killed since entering Gaza, a number whose validity questioned by many.
The Palestinian resistance forces suggest that the number of the deaths in the Israeli army is way higher than what is officially announced by the military.
The Israeli military implements a tight regime of censorship regarding the war, especially regarding the death tolls and the weapons and tactics used in genocidal Gaza war.
Israel's military claimed on 17 December that 121 soldiers had been killed since its delayed ground campaign began on 27 October, when tanks and infantry began to push into Gaza's cities and refugee camps.
But determining the true number of Israeli soldier casualties has always been notoriously difficult, as Israel’s military goes to great lengths to cover up its combat losses. A battle in December between Hamas and Israel’s vaunted Golani Brigade exemplifies this secrecy.
“We are heading to the most difficult and deepest place with a large number of enemy fighters,” boasted Israeli Lt. Col. Tomer Grinberg, commander of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, shortly before leading his troops on a ground operation in the legendary Shujaiyya (which aptly means “courageous”) neighborhood in northern Gaza.
He then added, “I promise you a resounding victory.”
But Grinberg is now dead.
According to Israeli sources, Grinberg was killed during the 12 December operation, along with nine other Golani soldiers, in an ambush by Hamas fighters.
Gringerg story is just the tip of the iceberg. Many were killed without being reported to the public.
This led one former US soldier to ask on X whether Israel was hiding the true number of soldiers killed in the ambush. “Where are all the privates, and the corporals, and the lower enlisted?”
Hamas, through its armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, provides an answer.
Regarding the events on 12 December, the Qassam Brigades reported killing 11 soldiers in Shujaiyya, including members of a rescue team, in an apparent reference to the deaths acknowledged by the Israeli army.
But according to Qassam, on the same day, its fighters also killed or injured 10 soldiers east of the city of Khan Yunis, killed or injured another 20 soldiers barricaded inside a building in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City, and killed another 15 soldiers who attacked them in their make-shift base at the Abu Rashid Pool.
There may be no precise number of the death toll and injuries of the Israeli army, but what is certain is that Israeli military is not the reliable source on the death toll and injuries, especially that Israeli public is already counting the human and economic costs of the war and the military finds it must not to provoke protests by releasing the real toll.
