Almost a fifth of Israeli soldiers who died in Gaza were killed due to friendly fire , according to data released by the Israeli military, Israeli Ynet News reported on 12 December. Friendly fires refer to incidents in which proponents shoot or hit their own side rather than their opponents’. The exact number of Israelis were killed in friendly fire incidents during the 7 October attacks by Hamasis not known. The Israeli military has stated that it would not be “morally sound” to open an investigation into friendly fire incidents “due to the immense and complex quantity of them that took place in the kibbutzim and southern Israeli communities,” Ynet wrote in the same report. Out of the 105 fatalities since the launch of the ground invasion of Gaza on 20 October, at least 20 soldiers were killed due to friendly fire by the Israeli army. The data reveals that 13 soldiers were misidentified as enemy combatants. Additionally, one soldier was fatally wounded by a stray bullet, while six others lost their lives in various accidents, including being run over by armored vehicles. Another soldier was killed due to an…