Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a three-day war drill along the Gaza Strip border simulating various military maneuver, including a full-blown war with terrorist organizations in the coastal enclave, the IDF said in a statement Sunday.
The field training exercise, which will measure the operational readiness of IDF soldiers for various combat scenarios “especially in the Gaza Strip,” will include infantry units, artillery, armored personnel carriers, main battle tanks, and aircraft, the statement read.
The exercise will also include armored personnel carriers and helicopters moving large numbers of troops to different regions, live-fire exercises, and aerial bombing raids.
Though a surprise announcement, the IDF said the drill had been planned for some time as part of its regular training schedule.
“We emphasize that the exercise was planned as part of the training program and is intended to maintain the readiness and readiness of the forces,” the IDF statement said.
The drill comes amid an increase of nighttime riots at the Gaza border fence, which includes throwing explosives over the barrier and the return of airborne arson attacks directed at Israel.
The Jerusalem Post said Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi attended a meeting with senior officers at IDF Southern Command. Military leaders agreed on a new operational plan in the event of war, including the formation of a centralized administrative unit that would prepare a list of potential targets in Gaza for special forces.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second most powerful terror group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas, was deemed a significant threat by the IDF and a contributing factor to the 2019 riots at the border.
Both Hamas and PIJ have restored their military capabilities to their pre-2014 strength.
IDF officials expect in the next major conflict, southern cities bordering the Strip will be hammered with rocket and mortar attacks. Due to this threat, Kochavi requested two Iron Dome anti-missile batteries for the region.
Earlier this year, former IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said forces had intercepted a shipment of 15,000-20,000 rockets into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Last year was the most dangerous increase in violence between Israel and terror groups operating in Gaza, not seen since the end of Operation Protective Edge in 2014, with more than 1,000 rockets fired.
The drill also comes as former military ombudsman Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Brick warned that IDF ground forces are not ready for a large-scale war.
The victims of the Israeli Defence Forces are all to often children with injuries such as this poor soul.
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This has to be one of the most biased articles I’ve read here at Southfront. As always Israel is the victim, only ever responding to attack by ‘terrorists’. What garbage!
That is the standard western Jew media line, Zionists are innocent victims of Arab aggression, when the total opposite is true. The Zionist criminals have illegally occupied the heart of Arab land in Palestine and committing horrendous atrocities against the native population with western money and weapons. The whole Hollywood manufactured Zionist narrative to dupe the brainwashed western populations is a total lie.
no not to worry . the squatters need to be kicked all the way to hell by iran and syria and turkeyand egypt and do not for one second think that mohammed bin salman is in favour of the squatters – they are going to be squashed to kingdom come.
Zionist scum are scared a doing this for internal politics. They have tried invading Gaza several times and failed after suffering casualties. The resistance groups are well prepared now and have better weaponry like anti-material rifles, even a few months ago they called uncle Sisi after a Islamic Jihad 330mm Zel Zel missile demolished a whole apartment block in Ashkelon in Southern Occupied Palestine. This time the rockets will fall on Haifa and Ben Gurion. Image what Hezbollah would do?
Southfront is becoming very pro-Israeli these days. I might as well read (((CNN))) and other fake news sites. Donation cancelled.
anything better around to suit your more sophistcated tastes. if so please advise or otherwise shut the feck up!
anti-semitism is on the rise in europe (and in moronistan as well) and there is some outcry from the various governments. lately the gerontophile macron has tried to equate anti-semitism with anti-zionism and good luck with that – only works in the most moronic states (aka usa) which already is subsumed into the squatters narrative,
but and in my mind anti-semitism is a corollary to the treatment of the palestinians in the land stolen by the squatters and is bound to be around as long as it is allowed for jewish organisations from outside israel, for synagogue-congregations and for various interest-groups (jewish or non-jewish) to send financial support to israel,
these jewish persons/congregations/interest-groups are
complicit in the ongoing ethnic cleansing or with one word the DEPALESTINATION;
complicit in the operation of the concentration camp a la bergen belsen called Gaza;
complicit in the murder of stone throwing kids and
complicit in the ongoing theft of palestinian land,
and in being so complicit these groups or persons subject themselves to the same kind of treatment the israelis bestow on the palestinians alive and not yet killed by the israelis with the ethnic cleansing program or the shooting of stone throwing kids.
so tit for tat – antisemitism in equal or enlarged measures for the much more severe and deadly depalestination.
so antisemitism is a corollary as long as subsidies from abroad keeps the squatters going.
prohibit financial support of israel from abroad.