Israeli special forces will take part in a week-long training exercise in the Trodos Mountains, Cypriot media reports.
According to the Cyprus Mail the drill will focus on scenarios for occupying and liberating villages and survival strategies in the mountainous range which rises to a height of some 2,000 meters above seal level.
Some 400 commandos will take part in the exercise. According to the Hebrew daily Haaretz, the drill will also include the use of Black Hawk helicopters.
The exercise is believed to be the largest since the two countries started to hold joint exercises in 2014.
In March, the two countries held a three-day joint military exercise named ‘Onisilos-Gideon’ that tested Cypriot air defences. In May, Israel sent observers to a 22-nation maritime search and rescue drill labeled Exercise Argonaut.
