Ya’alon says chemical weapon threat reduced

1 June 2015, 6:32 pm

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Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon says that the visit of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walther Steinmeier to Israel and the Gaza Strip has no connection with efforts to return the bodies of soldiers Shaul Oron and Hadar Goldin, who were killed in Operation Protective Edge.

During a tour of the Turning Point drill in the center of the country, Ya’alon also says the threat of chemical weapons against Israel has significantly dropped due to the international pressure against the Assad regime in Syria to disarm from chemical weapons. The IDF should still be prepared for a chemical attack, he emphasizes.