Military medical officials do not yet know the cause of his death, but confirm that there have been several similar cases of fungal infections among injured soldiers returning from Gaza. According to Professor Nadav Davidovitch, an epidemiology expert who heads the School of Public Health at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, all Israeli hospitals have reported that most injured soldiers returning suffer from serious infections that are resistant to the antimicrobials they receive through contact with contaminated soil, among other factors.

"Penyakit tidak memiliki batas. Kita perlu menyikapi situasi ini dengan serius," kata Davidovitch. Menurut Dovidovitch, infeksi yang resisten terhadap antimikroba telah menjadi masalah besar di Gaza selama bertahun-tahun, karena penggunaan antibiotik yang tidak sesuai atau kegagalan pasien dalam menyelesaikan pengobatan karena kekurangan obat. Profesor Galia Rahav, kepala Asosiasi Penyakit Menular Israel, dalam sebuah wawancara baru-baru ini dengan media berbahasa Ibrani Ynet punya pendapat yang sama dengan Davidovitch."

The translation of the given text to English while preserving the HTML tags is as follows: "The hospitals in Gaza are nests of these super bacteria. Before the war, Gaza patients brought them to Israeli hospitals when they came for surgery and treatment, sometimes causing serious outbreaks in the wards. For further clarification - IDF soldiers who are injured are not treated in Gaza hospitals. They contract these infections because the bacteria, fungi, or parasites are present in the soil or mud in Gaza where they lie until they are evacuated. They have deep and open wounds infected by microbes, Davidovitch explains."