IDF Launches Massive Weeklong Drill Simulating War With Hezbollah Combined With Domestic Unrest

In May, an Israeli court’s ruling to evict six Palestinian families from a neighbourhood of East Jerusalem triggered public unrest which culminated in an 11-day battle between the Israeli military and Gaza-based militants led by Hamas. Nearly 300 civilians were killed in the fighting, most of them Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.