The Israeli occupation army on Sunday embarked on a round of military maneuvers along Gaza borders.
The Israeli army spokesman said the drills slated to be wrapped up on Thursday come as part of the army’s annual plan and has nothing to do with the latest events.
Sounds of warplanes hovering over the territory have been detected by families living near the border fence.
On November 11 one-week drills were carried out by the Israeli army in anticipation of alleged attacks by the Islamic Jihad Movement in response to an earlier Israeli strike on a resistance site that took away the lives of 12 Palestinian fighters mostly from Islamic Jihad’s armed wing.
Another round of drills was carried out by the occupation forces in the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights in what observers dubbed a move heralding a projected Israeli escalation in the region.
Large-scale military maneuvers were also carried out earlier this month and lasted for two weeks under the “Blue Flag” tag. Hundreds of pilots and front-line fighters from the US Greece Poland Germany France Italy and India have taken hundreds of warplanes to Israel’s airspace in the multinational drills. The entire drill was based at the Ovda Air Base north of Israel’s Red Sea town of Eilat.
The Israeli army has claimed that the drills provide a sort of battle lab in which forces can hone a spectrum of skills needed to combat growing threats. The forces are put through increasingly difficult war scenarios each day to test particular skill sets.
