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2021-11-01 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Drill for 2,000 rockets a day and internal strife: IDF preps for war
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[JPost] Home Front Command and RAHEL to carry out joint war-time drill starting today * In war, 2,000 rockets expected to be fired per day by Hezbollah
Israel’s Home Front Command and National Emergency Authority (RAHEL) will hold a week-long drill starting on Sunday simulating a large-scale war in which civilians are evacuated from northern border communities and security agencies will deal with massive rocket barrages sent by Hezbollah.
The drill will take lessons that have been learned from past events in the North, as well as those from the May fighting between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip — Operation Guardian of the Walls — and from the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
Following the May fighting, the Home Front Command "carried out a very significant learning process with a lot of research, and this exercise is going to test what we’ve learned," said Home Front Command Chief of Staff Brig.-Gen. Itzik Bar.
Israel Police and Magen David Adom will also participate in the drill, which ends Thursday, and will see all security and various governmental bodies take part.
"This exercise is also a great opportunity for all government ministries to understand the implications, starting with disruptions in the energy sector — we are talking about 24-hour power outages across the country, 72 hours in localized communities — and other such aspects in terms of continual functioning," Bar said.
According to RAHEL head Yoram Laredo, the drill is the first time that it is working together with the Home Front Command, and it will sharpen the abilities of the two to work hand-in-hand.
The drill will focus on a new alert system for residents of northern Israel, as well as the rate of fire and the ability of Hezbollah to fire precision missiles and massive barrages toward specific areas — especially communities near the border fence.
According to Bar, some of the issues that concern him are "the issue of precision-guided munitions and the effect that they will have on our ability to function and on things in the world of incoming fire alerts. The second is the rate of fire and Hezbollah’s ability to conduct truly massive rocket barrages at specific geographic areas — I’ll use the phrase ’demolishing the front line’ — directed fire at the communities near the border."
On Wednesday, warning sirens with a new alert time and the unit’s emergency application will also be tested.
LOCALITIES IN which the sirens have changed from "immediate" to "15 seconds" are the communities of Ga’aton, Yehiam and Evron in the Mateh Asher Regional Council; the Golan communities of Geshur, Neot Golan, Yoav-Bnei Yehuda, Mevo Hama and the IDF’s Kela base; in the Jordan Valley, the communities of Ma’agan, Golan Heights, Maasade, Kinneret College and Tel Katzir have been extended from 15 seconds to 30 seconds.
Due to the large number of projectiles expected to be fired toward border communities and the continued lack of adequate bomb shelters, the drill will also focus on joint evacuation of residents of communities that are within five km. of the Lebanese border and their absorption into other locations in Israel. 
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