{"id":594062,"date":"2026-08-24T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/594062\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T02:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:38:08","slug":"israeli-army-uses-30-years-worth-of-munitions-in-three-year-war-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/594062\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli army uses 30 years&#8217; worth of munitions in three-year war \u2014 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Signs of strain are also emerging among career soldiers, with a significant number offered command positions opting instead for less demanding rear roles or leaving military service altogether.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Meanwhile, the Israeli army is keeping an average of 53,000 reservists on active duty each day.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Maariv said a single month of reserve service last year cost around 2.1 billion shekels ($703 million), equivalent to the price of seven F-35 fighter jets or 70 Merkava tanks.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Israeli forces are currently deployed across what the newspaper described as three &#8220;security belts&#8221; in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, in addition to the occupied West Bank, which consumes the largest share of military manpower.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Five Israeli battalions are deployed along the so-called yellow line in Gaza, covering roughly 60 percent of the enclave, alongside two reinforced battalions on the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signs of strain are also emerging among career soldiers, with a significant number offered command positions opting instead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-594062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}