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Israel Says it is Better Prepared for Hizbullah Missiles

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Friday, 11 April 2008

Israel wound up its largest ever civil defense exercise on Thursday to guards against missile attacks from Syria, Lebanon's Hizbullah and Gaza militants. The latest phase of the drills, a simulation of a chemical weapons attack on a hospital, was concluded successfully and the five days of drills worked well, according to Israeli officials. In the final drill a hospital in the northern city of Afula was evacuated during a simulated chemical weapons strike, a military spokesman said. The home front maneuver was aimed at preparing Israel for possible attacks involving conventional weapons as well as missiles equipped with chemical or bacteriological warheads. The exercise, which began on Sunday "worked very well, everything worked according to what we planned. We thought we would have many more problems," said defense ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror. The drills also aimed at preparing the country for possible concerted attacks by Syria, Hizbullah from the north, and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas from the south. The nationwide exercise raised tensions with Israel's northern neighbors Syria and Lebanon, but Israel insisted the drill was solely designed to test civilian defenses. "The objective of the drill was to check all kinds of situations," Dror said. "We said earlier that if everything went well (during the 2006 Lebanon war) we wouldn't have to do a drill." The commander of the home front northern command said Israel was today much better prepared for missile attacks than it was at the 2006 war against Hizbullah when over 4,000 rockets struck northern Israel. "We are at a completely different place today. The level of our readiness is much higher and everyone understands what they have to do," Colonel Yossi Luchy told AFP. An official inquiry harshly criticized Israel's leadership for failing to protect civilians during the 34-day conflict which killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, most of them soldiers.(AFP-Naharnet)

 

 

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