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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'He got out of Gaza, but Gaza did not get out of him': Israeli soldiers returning from war struggle with trauma, suicide
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/middleeast/gaza-war-israeli-soldiers-ptsd-suicide-intl/index.html A 40-year-old father of four, Eliran Mizrahi deployed to Gaza after the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
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Guy Zaken, Mizrahis friend and co-driver of the bulldozer, provided further insight into their experience in Gaza. We saw very, very, very difficult things, Zaken told CNN. Things that are difficult to accept.
The former soldier has spoken publicly about the psychological trauma endured by Israeli troops in Gaza. In a testimony to the Knesset, Israels parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many occasions, soldiers had to run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.
Everything squirts out, he added.
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Guy Zaken, Mizrahis friend and co-driver of the bulldozer, provided further insight into their experience in Gaza. We saw very, very, very difficult things, Zaken told CNN. Things that are difficult to accept.
The former soldier has spoken publicly about the psychological trauma endured by Israeli troops in Gaza. In a testimony to the Knesset, Israels parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many occasions, soldiers had to run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.
Everything squirts out, he added.
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'He got out of Gaza, but Gaza did not get out of him': Israeli soldiers returning from war struggle with trauma, suicide (Original Post)
WhiskeyGrinder
10 hrs ago
OP
Such horror. Netanyahu doesn't seem to care though about his soldiers or the dead Gazans.
brush
10 hrs ago
#3
So horrible. The soldier's view that it's another war is from his perspective...
brush
10 hrs ago
#5
Solly Mack
(92,226 posts)1. K&R
In war, no one escapes.
patphil
(6,837 posts)2. American Soldiers returning from Vietnam had the same problem.
The slogan "War is Hell" is absolutely true.
brush
(56,905 posts)3. Such horror. Netanyahu doesn't seem to care though about his soldiers or the dead Gazans.
He's still ordering killing strikes in demolished Gaza still where no supplies are allowe in, and now Lebanon.
What a warmonger.
WhiskeyGrinder
(23,610 posts)4. Speaking of Lebanon...
From the article:
And as it now expands to Lebanon, some soldiers say they dread being drafted into yet another conflict.
A lot of us are very scared of getting drafted again to a war in Lebanon, an IDF medic who served four months in Gaza told CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. A lot of us dont trust the government right now.
A lot of us are very scared of getting drafted again to a war in Lebanon, an IDF medic who served four months in Gaza told CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. A lot of us dont trust the government right now.
brush
(56,905 posts)5. So horrible. The soldier's view that it's another war is from his perspective...
which is different from many of us from afar who view it as all the same war.
Israel surely needs to dump warmonger Netanyahu asap.
WhiskeyGrinder
(23,610 posts)6. evening kick
malaise
(276,955 posts)7. Apparently calling them terrorists
Didnt make it easier.
It was murdering human beings
lpbk2713
(43,162 posts)8. War will fuck you up.
For the rest of your life.
cliffside
(409 posts)9. knr :( nt
Rob H.
(5,537 posts)10. k&R nt