The repeated "fatal" operational and technical mistakes within the Israeli army over the past hours have attracted the attention of the Hebrew media, raising urgent questions about the reasons behind them. Among the prominent incidents highlighted, the Israeli army announced the killing of five of its paratroopers and the injury of others due to the shelling of a building in Jabalia, northern Gaza, where the soldiers had taken shelter, after mistakenly identifying them as "hostile forces." The Israeli army later stated that its soldiers were killed by "friendly fire."
The tanks had arrived in the area in the morning, and after several hours, the paratroopers arrived and established a position in the building. When the tank forces spotted a rifle barrel protruding from one of the building's windows, they mistakenly believed it belonged to "Hamas" operatives, prompting them to fire two shells.
Another incident, captured on cameras, occurred hours after the "friendly fire" incident when a gun belonging to the Israeli army exploded among its soldiers in the Sderot settlement near Gaza while firing shells toward Jabalia in Gaza.
Another serious mistake committed by the Israeli army was when a half-ton bomb mistakenly fell from a warplane on a town within the Gaza envelope settlements, causing significant damage even though it did not explode, according to Israeli army radio.
Simultaneously with the erroneous fall of the large bomb, the Israeli army reported that one of its drones also crashed in the Golan due to a "technical malfunction," emphasizing that there was no information leakage from the drone, repeating a similar incident from the previous month.
Hebrew reports indicate that around 50 Israeli soldiers have died so far due to operational mistakes or "friendly fire" since the war on Gaza began. Investigations often attribute the causes to communication problems between forces, a lack of experience among soldiers, and their exhaustion due to spending long hours on the front lines, while other reasons include fear at times, leading to hasty decision-making without adhering to military protocols and instructions.
