Photo Credit: IDF
Thousands of active IDF soldiers suddenly received calls to head to the northern border this past Sunday in a surprise military drill designed to test their readiness to protect Israel from Hezbollah.
The drill ended Monday.
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Hezbollah secretary-general Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has been making oblique threats in his speeches over the past several months of plans to invade northern Israel, and a possible attempt to seize one or more Israeli communities.
Among the units that were transferred north were those from the elite Golani Brigade, the Combat Intelligence Gathering Corps, Special Forces, and the Oz Brigade special operations unit.
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