Israel wraps up West Bank war games
AFP
Date: 04-27-07
JERUSALEM (AFP) - 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.
The war games mobilised a brigade, including artillery, armoured vehicles, infantry and sappers, and followed two and a half months of intensive training, Ratsabi said. A brigade numbers about 2,000 soldiers.
A government commission into the conduct and failures of the Lebanon war between Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah is to publish partial findings on Monday, amid ongoing calls for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign.
The commission was established on September 17 under pressure from thousands of army reservists who complained about inadequate preparation for battle, as well as perceived military and political mismanagement of the conflict.
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