IDF Reports Sharp Rise in Soldier Suicides

Israel: Lawmakers call for urgent investigation into IDF suicides

3 soldiers took their lives in the past week • According to the figures mentioned in the letter, 38 suicides were recorded between 2023 and 2024, with 21 since the beginning of this year alone

Four Jews Serving with IDF child elimination details kill themselves in under two weeks

Recent rise in suicides comes as Hamas ramps up attacks against Israeli soldiers across the Gaza Strip

Knesset members urge Yuli Edelstein to lead discussion on IDF suicides, mental health crisis

Nine members of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee sent a letter calling for an immediate discussion on what they described as a sharp and troubling rise in suicides within the IDF.

IDF Soldier Seriously Wounded in Apparent Suicide Attempt at Training Base

An IDF soldier was seriously wounded earlier today in what the military is describing as an apparent suicide attempt. According to the IDF, the soldier—identified as a paratrooper in training—was found with a gunshot wound believed to be self-inflicted at a training base in southern Israel. He was transported to a hospital in serious condition, and his family has been notified. The IDF has opened a Military Police investigation into the incident…

As mental health crisis deepens, another Israeli soldier dies by suicide on base

Four soldiers have taken their own lives in the last two weeks alone - two of them in regular service, two reservists recently released from many weeks of service during the war. Since the beginning of the war, there has been an increase in the number of soldiers in active service who died by suicide compared to previous years

IDF reports sharp rise in soldier suicides

As the Netanyahu government comes under pressure to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory military service, the Israeli army is reporting a spate of suicides among soldiers deployed on the Gaza front. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.