Israel to Hold Largest-Ever Emergency Drill in April

Al-Manar

"17/03/2008 Israeli Failure during Second Lebanon War is still affecting the Zionist entity which is trying its utmost to learn lessons from it as much as it can. This failure along with Israeli concerns of a possible escalation with Syria and Iran's efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon, parts of occupied territories will shut down next month in what Israeli security officials say will be the largest emergency exercise in Israel's history.

The drill, which is being organized by the newly-established National Emergency Authority, will take place over five days starting on Sunday, April 6. But first, on Tuesday, a first-of-its-kind hospital emergency exercise will take place to see how Ashkelon's Barzilai Medical Center would cope with a Grad missile hitting a five-story hospitalization building and an outpatient clinic's laboratory filled with toxic chemicals and a fire breaking out, requiring patients to be lowered from the roof......."