PNN – Hebrew sources stated that the cabinet approved an irrelevant budget that did not take into account the actual costs of the war, emphasizing that the continuation of the war in Gaza means deepening Israel’s economic disaster and severe damage to the reserve forces, which are the backbone of the army and the main workforce.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, since the establishment of the fake Zionist regime in the occupied territories of Palestine 77 years ago, this regime has always been involved in various wars in the region, both inside Palestine and outside it, and has not passed any period peacefully and without war.
Changing the equations of war for the Zionists
But what distinguishes the wars of the first five decades of the Zionist regime’s occupation in Palestine from the new wars was that the previous wars mainly took place outside the borders of Palestine and the attacks did not extend to the Zionists’ internal front, and the human and economic costs of these wars for Israel were limited to military costs, some of which were compensated through the spoils of war.
In addition, the previous wars, with the exception of the 1948 war, were short and limited and did not have many economic and social effects on the occupying regime. In fact, the relatively difficult wars of the Zionist regime occurred after 1973, which became longer and more deadly until it reached a new stage.
Following the emergence of Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982, the painful blows to the Zionist regime began in the wars of this regime with the Arab countries, and the Palestinians were able to damage the internal front of this regime by following the example of Lebanon’s resistance during the many wars they had with the Zionist enemy.
After the war was dragged into the internal front of the Zionist regime since 2000 by the Lebanese resistance and then the Palestinian resistance, the occupiers realized that the cost of the war for them is increasing every day.
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But the Al-Aqsa storm battle, as the most historic battle between the Arabs and the Zionist occupiers, caused unprecedented damage to this regime at various levels, including at the economic level, which has reached the border of the collapse of Israel’s economy.
Calcalist economic newspaper of the Zionist regime wrote: Since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, about 840 Israeli soldiers have been killed and 14,000 wounded, and an average of 1,000 more soldiers is injured every month. At the beginning of the war, approximately 220,000 reservists were called to compulsory service, which has huge economic consequences. The cost of the war last year amounted to 150 billion shekels (the currency of the Zionist regime), of which approximately 44 billion shekels were allocated to the salaries and personnel costs of the reserve forces.
The staggering costs of the war for the Israeli army
Zionist media reported that the current war has imposed the highest possible costs on Israel and that the minimum monthly allowance allocated to each reserve force is about 15,000 shekels. In addition, Israel uses very expensive weapons in the war, including the Hitz-3 missiles produced by Israel Aerospace Industries, with an estimated cost of between 2 and 3 million dollars each. In the current war, these missiles are widely used to intercept ballistic missiles launched by Yemen.
Now, after Eyal Zamir, the Chief of Staff of the Zionist Army, issued a call to recruit tens of thousands of new troops to the army to expand the war in the Gaza Strip, the talks about the political, social and economic consequences of the war for Israel have increased more than before.
The economic newspaper Marker of the Zionist regime announced that the cost of expanding the war in the Gaza Strip for only three months is more than 7 billion dollars, and we need more than two billion dollars per month only to fund the reserve forces and ammunition costs.
Therefore, Netanyahu’s cabinet has to revise the budget that was approved a few weeks ago with many problems and increase the expenses of the war cabinet. This essentially means imposing new taxes that will increase the already heavy burden on Israelis.
Of course, all this is without clarifying the budget approved by the Ministry of War of the Zionist regime for 2025, which was based on the ministry’s cash expenses in 2024 and was set at about 40 billion dollars, and if the war really expands, the projected budget of the army of this regime will exceed 50 billion dollars.
The destruction of the labor market of the Zionist regime with the continuation of the war
But the Israeli newspaper Marker reported: On the one hand, the Israeli cabinet has approved the budget, and on the other hand, it is advancing a plan that means leaving the set budget framework. In fact, the cabinet itself knew that the budget it was approving was devoid of content, but nevertheless, it presented an irrelevant budget for approval in the Knesset to prevent the cabinet from collapsing, and it did not consider various scenarios when drafting this budget.
According to this report, the continuation of the war in Gaza and its expansion will lead to the flight of more investors from Israel (Occupied Palestine) and will also damage the value of its currency.
The deep crisis of the backbone of the Israeli army
One of the former economic advisers of the Chief of Staff of the Zionist Army, whose name has not been revealed, said in a conversation with the army radio of this regime: A large call to recruit reserve forces into the army means an economic disaster for Israel.
He said: First of all, we must understand that the reserve forces are the backbone of the Israeli army, and it is true that there is a regular army, but ultimately we depend on the reserve forces. On the other hand, we have never seen a war that lasted so long and with such a heavy burden on the reserve forces.
The aforementioned Zionist military officer stated: This trend also has a severe impact on small businesses and can be a disaster for self-employed reservists; because if, for example, a few of them have their own small business and leave it for a few months, it means losing their business. This means that if the war continues, we will enter a big spiral from which we will not be able to get out later.
Israeli banks have made pessimistic forecasts for the Israeli economy in the next two years, both in terms of GDP and growth rates, and also reported that the loss of foreign investments due to the unstable security situation will significantly damage the economy.
The Zionist economic newspaper Globes also announced that even if the current war ends now, it will cause economic losses for Israel for at least a decade.