More than 5,000 Israeli soldiers have been injured in Gaza since the conflict began, with more than 2,000 officially recognised by the Ministry of Defense as disabled, according to an Israeli newspaper, Anadolu Agency reports.

“We have never experienced anything similar to this. More than 58 per cent of the wounded we receive have serious injuries to their hands and feet, including amputations,” Limor Luria, deputy director general and head of Israel’s Ministry of Defense’s Rehabilitation Department, told the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

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