Diagnoses of mental health disorders among active-duty service members increased by nearly 40% over the last five years, according to a new Defense Health Agency report.
The report, which was released as part of the agency’s Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division’s December Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, examined mental health diagnoses among active-duty troops between 2019 and 2023, finding that anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, accounted for the largest increase in diagnoses.
Specifically, diagnoses of these disorders nearly doubled during the five- year period, according to the report. The report did not pinpoint a single cause for the rise but cited the COVID-19 pandemic, which coincided with the five-year period, as a potential factor in the uptick.
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Rights Group Finds Israel Uses Gaza Safe Zones to Hide a Genocide
A report published last Wednesday details how Israel forcibly expels Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in order to facilitate – and hide – genocidal attacks in evacuated areas, while forcing refugees into alleged humanitarian “safe zones” that are “intentionally designed to ensure the destruction of all life sheltering there.”
The Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq published the report, titled How to Hide a Genocide, which examines “the role of evacuation orders and safe zones in Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.”
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2025/01/05/rights-group-finds-israel-uses-gaza- safe-zones-to-hide-a-genocide/