TEL AVIV (NNN-WAFA) -- The Israeli army is training Jewish settlers in the West Bank and supplying them with tear gas and stun grenades in preparation for "Operation Summer Seeds", which aims to ready the Israeli army for Palestinian mass disorder coinciding with the Palestinian bid to gain full United Nations membership of the Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, according to Haaretz, Israel's oldest newspaper. Haaretz says it has obtained a document which includes a plan to train and arm Jewish settlers by the Israeli army. The latest activity was training sessions held Monday for the chief security officers of settlements, held at a military installation near Shiloh in the northern West Bank.
Moreover, the newspaper says, the Israeli army has been training the readiness squads of settlements for several weeks at the Lachish base, which is used as a command training centre, ahead of the presentation of the Palestinian bid to the UN General Assembly which opens its 2011-2012 session later this month.
Haaretz has also reported on two defence lines being set up by the Israeli army around settlements near Palestinian villages; the first, if crossed by Palestinian demonstrators, will be met with tear gas and other means for dispersing crowds, while the second, the "Red Line", if crossed, would allow Israeli soldiers to open fire at the feet of Palestinians.-- NNN-WAFA
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