The Israeli army is facing a moral deterioration playing out among soldiers amid a high state of fear, a reserve officer said, as Israel continued its war in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports.
“I don’t want to write about the hardship of repeated reserve duty or about the damage it does to one’s body and soul, even though these important topics should be discussed more often,” the officer, who did not give his name, said in a letter published by Haaretz newspaper.
“Rather, I want to discuss values, a problem I’m regrettably contending with as I witness a moral deterioration playing out within the army. Morality is the essence of our human nature and of our link to the divine.”
The officer, who identified himself as a commander of a unit doing reserve duty in Gaza, said the army is fighting “an ongoing battle of trench warfare that is never satiated.”
“The objective of our mission is no longer clear, not even defined, leaving us no criteria with which to measure success,” he said.
