{"id":183971,"date":"2025-09-15T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=183971"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:07:47","slug":"55-of-israeli-soldiers-wounded-in-gaza-suffered-psychological-trauma-says-israels-defense-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/183971\/","title":{"rendered":"55% of Israeli soldiers wounded in Gaza suffered psychological trauma, says Israel\u2019s Defense Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>About 20,000 wounded soldiers from the current Gaza war are being treated by the Israeli Defense Ministry&rsquo;s rehabilitation department, of which 10,700, or 55%, are dealing with psychological wounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2025-09-14\/ty-article-live\/rubio-hamas-cannot-continue-to-exist-if-peace-in-the-region-is-the-goal\/00000199-45cb-d336-addd-6fffa5380000?liveBlogItemId=1397364864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haaretz<\/a> writes, referring to Israel&rsquo;s Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty percent of those with mental wounds were also physically hurt, whereas 45% are only physically wounded, per the Ministry; 64% of the patients are reserve soldiers, and 92% are men.<\/p>\n<p>The rehabilitation department estimates that by 2028 it will treat 100,000 wounded, including 50,000 with psychological wounds.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, the department estimated it would reach that number by 2030, but due to the expansion of the Gaza campaign, its estimates have changed.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 20,000 wounded soldiers from the current Gaza war are being treated by the Israeli Defense Ministry&rsquo;s rehabilitation department, of which 10,700, or 55%, are dealing with psychological wounds, Haaretz writes, referring to Israel&rsquo;s Defense Ministry. Twenty percent of those with mental wounds were also physically hurt, whereas 45% are only physically wounded, per the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":183886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183972,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183971\/revisions\/183972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}