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IDF suspends grenade-throwing exercises at urban warfare training sites after cadet injured
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleStav Levaton is a military reporter for The Times of Israel
The IDF says it has frozen all drills that involve the throwing of grenades in urban warfare training facilities, following a grenade explosion during an officers’ course exercise last week that injured a cadet.
According to the military, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir ordered the suspension over the past week, pending the completion of a full investigation into the incident.
Last week, the IDF said that a cadet in the Gefen Battalion at the Bahad 1 officers’ school was seriously injured during a training exercise in the north.
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