"Living without conditions and in uncertainty, it ends their souls": the silent plight of the IDF operators in Gaza - Walla! News. IDF operators who operate in the Gaza Strip are transferred from unit to unit when there is no one to guarantee that they will have something to eat or a place to sleep.

Many cannot stand the mental distress and drop out of the army. "Two rounds of recruitment of operators of heavy mechanical engineering equipment evaporated from the army because of the situation in the field"