JERUSALEM - Israel has ended extensive military manoeuvres in the occupied West Bank that were designed to assimilate lessons learned from last year’s war in Lebanon, a senior officer said on Friday. “For the last 40 hours we have conducted large ground exercises in the Judean desert,” Lieutenant Colonel Elad Ratsabi, the commander of the elite Shelah unit, told AFP by telephone.
“These exercises were organised to deal with various scenarios and to take on board lessons learnt after the Second Lebanon War,” he said.
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The war games mobilised 2,000 soldiers, including artillery, armoured vehicles, infantry and sappers, and followed two and a half months of intensive training, Ratsabi said. |