Khaberni -The Maariv newspaper reported that the Israeli army is currently suffering from a shortage estimated at 300 officers in the positions of leaders of ground forces factions, amid the ongoing war on Gaza.
The newspaper clarified that the shortage of officers is concentrated in the engineering corps, which suffers from a significant shortage of faction leaders and engineering and dismantling teams.
The Israeli newspaper pointed out that the army acknowledges the difficulty of convincing soldiers, whom it described as competent, to join the officer course.
This is not the first time the Israeli media speaks about a shortage in the ranks of the army as it continues the war on Gaza and its forces are exposed to attacks from Palestinian resistance fighters on various axes of incursion into the sector.
Previously, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quoted the Israeli army as having a shortage of about 10,000 soldiers due to the ongoing war on Gaza and the ineffectiveness of efforts to recruit ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim).
The newspaper stated that the Israeli army began implementing a regulation requiring soldiers to stay after completing their regular service due to the shortage, explaining that the military order imposes on regular soldiers to serve in the army for an additional four months.
The occupation army had previously pushed soldiers who had not completed their training into Gaza to participate in its war on Gaza, given the shortage of numbers in its ranks, according to Israeli media.
In recent months, the army has spoken of a shortage of regular soldiers due to the failure to recruit Haredim, and between 30% and 40% of reserve soldiers abstaining from service for reasons including exhaustion from the length of the war, according to Israeli media.
The occupation army is accused of concealing its real losses in Gaza, despite occasionally admitting the killing and wounding of its officers and soldiers, as part of its ongoing destructive war on the sector.
Resistance operations against the occupation forces in the axes of incursion have escalated, as 39 soldiers and officers have been killed in Gaza - according to the Israeli newspaper "Yedioth Ahronoth" - since Israel resumed the war on Gaza on March 18, after reneging on the January 2025 ceasefire agreement.
Recently, Israeli media have allocated space to the escalation of soldiers dying in Gaza in confrontations or by suicide due to the pressures of the war on them, while the government is trying to pass a recruitment law that exempts tens of thousands of Haredim from military service.
