NEARLY HALF OF ISRAELI STUDENT SOLDIERS MULL ‘QUITTING’ SCHOOL AMID GAZA WAR

Wed 14 February 2024:

According to a recent opinion poll, 42 percent of Israeli university students serving as army reservists are considering leaving out owing to worsening in their psychological condition as a result of the ongoing tragic war on Gaza.

“More than 60 percent of the students said their psychological state had worsened since the outbreak of war on Oct. 7, 2023,” the Israeli channel 13 said on Sunday, quoting the poll results.

“About 40 percent of them are thinking about withdrawing from their studies due to the effects of the war,” the poll added, noting that the percentage among student reserve soldiers reached 42 percent.

The most recent poll, done by the Association of Male and Female Students in Israel on a sample of 7,350 participants, indicated that 48% of students said “they had received or might receive psychological help in the future due to the war.”

Following a surprise attack by Palestinian resistance group Hamas, Israel began a deadly onslaught on Gaza on October 7, killing at least 28,064 Palestinians and injuring 67,611.

Nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.

The Israeli offensive has left 85 percent of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60 percent of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

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