Suicide of an Israeli reserve officer in the occupation army by gunshot inside his apartment.

The Hebrew website Walla reported that the occupation's ambulance crews found the body of a reserve officer inside his apartment in Rishon Lezion, south of Tel Aviv, after he committed suicide by shooting himself.

The site clarified that the Magen David Adom team declared him dead on the spot after examining him, noting that he was 31 years old and was supposed to get married this evening.

The ambulance stated that the officer who committed suicide had a gunshot wound upon examination of his body, and the army informed his family while the military police opened an investigation.

A week prior to this incident, a soldier from the occupation forces who participated in the genocide in the Gaza Strip committed suicide by shooting himself.

Hebrew accounts on social media reported that First Sergeant Eitan Cooperman, a resident of the settlement of Ma'alot Tarshiha in northern occupied Palestine, shot himself in Akko and was killed instantly.

Accounts pointed out that Cooperman is the 20th among soldiers who have committed suicide since the beginning of this year, due to the psychological trauma they faced as a result of being subjected to attacks from the resistance in the Gaza Strip.

Before Cooperman, last month, a member of the police station in the settlement of Sderot, who suffered from the trauma of the Al-Qassam attack during the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation, committed suicide, as did an officer who took his own life in the Galilee forests in northern occupied Palestine.

A testimony from a soldier in the Golani Brigade broadcasted by Hebrew channels revealed that he constantly and hysterically locks the doors of his home with chairs, fearing that Palestinian resistance fighters would invade his place.

His wife pointed out that he suffers from a hysterical condition all the time due to what he witnessed in Gaza, and his psychological state is difficult, living in constant fear of Palestinian fighters entering his home, which is why he resorts to securing the door by placing chairs behind it.

Earlier, Haaretz attributed the rise in the number of suicides among soldiers to the fact that "Israel suffers from a severe shortage of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social specialists."

It stated that "the Israeli army does not know how to deal with soldiers discharged from service or reserve soldiers, and previously with soldiers serving in the unit that identifies the dead within its ranks."

It noted that hundreds of psychologically injured individuals enter the Israeli army's rehabilitation department every month, as many of them suffer from post-traumatic stress disorders due to their participation in the genocide against the Gaza Strip.

On July 15, the spokesperson for the Israeli occupation army, Ivi Dovrin, refused to disclose official data on suicide cases among soldiers since the beginning of this year, according to Hebrew media.

Since the beginning of the genocide against Gaza on October 7, 2023, the occupation army has acknowledged the deaths of 905 Israeli soldiers and the injury of 6,108, according to the latest figures announced on the army's website, which observers believe do not reveal the true extent of its losses.