Another Israeli Soldier Commits Suicide After Returning from Gaza
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade killed himself with a firearm at a military base, highlighting rising psychological distress among occupation troops and the army’s efforts to conceal the true scale of suicides.
Hebrew daily Haaretz reported that the soldier took his own life at the Sde Teiman base shortly after being questioned by military police.
He had previously lost a close friend who was killed last month when an armored vehicle was blown up by Palestinian resistance forces.
According to Haaretz, ten Israeli soldiers died by suicide during service in 2023, 21 in 2024, and at least 14 since the start of 2025.
The report said the soldier had left Gaza for training but, despite commanders confiscating his weapon after interrogation, he obtained another gun from a colleague and killed himself hours later.
Just days earlier, Hebrew outlet Walla revealed that another Israeli soldier had committed suicide after months of trauma in Gaza and Lebanon, unable to endure the horrors he witnessed.
Haaretz emphasized that the Israeli military refuses to disclose real suicide statistics and has buried many soldiers quietly, without military funerals or public announcements.
The Hebrew website Shomrim stated that most of the soldiers who ended their lives over the past year were reservists, though the army claims that the suicide rate is not unusually high, despite the large-scale mobilization.
Professor Yossi Levi-Belz, head of the Suicide Research Center at Ruppin Academic Center, warned that the Israeli army is facing a major wave of suicides, as soldiers cannot cope with the psychological aftermath of the war.
He said that since October 7, 2023, Israeli soldiers have faced severe crises and discovered they were confronting a far stronger adversary.
Reservists have become highly vulnerable and continue to suffer from post-traumatic stress, and according to Levi-Belz, a significant surge in suicides will likely continue as they remain unable to process what they experienced.
