Israel’s annual nationwide emergency drill simulating an attack on the country will include a large-scale exercise in evacuating and rehousing civilians caught on the front lines.
It is the first time the country will be practicing for such an eventuality in the framework of a drill and comes in the wake of last summer’s Operation Protective Edge — which exposed a potentially massive threat from Hamas in the form of terror tunnels that infiltrated into Israeli territory — and amid reports of another round of violence with the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which claims to have built a sophisticated tunnel network on Israel’s northern border.
According to military assessments, a future conflict with Hezbollah could include a scenario in which the IDF may have to evacuate citizens due to attempts by the terror group to infiltrate and occupy Israeli towns, NRG reported Sunday. (READ MORE)
