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Inside ‘Little Gaza,’ Where Israeli Soldiers Are Training for Invasion

The Israeli military has built a replica of a generic Palestinian village, where soldiers train…

WSJ

By Sune Engel Rasmussen, Anat Peled, Dion Nissenbaum and Dov Lieber

TZE’ELIM, Israel—In the sun-torched plains of southern Israel, thousands of soldiers wait for the go-ahead from politicians and commanders to do what the Israeli military has trained for years to do: fight in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military has built a replica of a generic Palestinian village nicknamed “Little Gaza” at a base in the Negev Desert, where soldiers train for combat against armed terrorists in narrow streets and a labyrinth of tunnels.