Israeli training exercises simulate a war on the northern front. This comes amid escalating threats by Israeli officials to expand attacks on Lebanese territory unless Lebanese Hezbollah fighters withdraw away from the border with northern Israel.

For more than 4 months, Israel has launched an aggression against the Gaza Strip that has left tens of thousands of civilians martyred and wounded, most of them children and women. The Israeli army said, in a statement, that the exercises included “a joint exercise of armored forces, engineering infantry, and artillery"