© AFP Photo/Jack GuezIsraeli rescue teams, doctors, hospital staff and soldiers take part in defence drill simulating response to a chemical attack, at the Hilel Yafe hospital in the coastal city of Hadera, north of Tel Aviv
The IDF Home Front Command is preparing all hospitals in Israel for a range of security threats, including large-scale missile attacks and chemical attacks, a senior military source told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
The preparations have been planned three years in advance, and bear no relation to current events or recent threat assessments. Exercises include training hospital staff to deal with conventional missile attacks, mass-casualty incidents and "mega-mass casualty incidents," - involving 1,000 or more injuries.
"We train a lot for chemical weapons," a Home Front Command source said. "This is our business, and only ours. There is no room for error."
The drills form the only basis for dealing with a chemical weapon attack, the source stressed, "since we have no experience with this."
The threat of a chemical attack from neighboring Syria is very low, but the defense community's contingency planning includes steps to both prevent and cope with such a threat.
Comment: One wonders just what kind of attacks are being planned by Israel which will then be blamed on neighboring countries like Syria. Remember, Israel knows better than anyone the usefulness of a false flag attack...