This battalion will comprise the Merkava tanks of the Mk. 3 version, which had previously been retired from service and marked for sale. These valuable machines still have notable capacities.

On Aug. 25, 2005, just three days after the last Israeli had pulled out of the Gaza Strip, the first rocket was fired into Israel.

TASS/. Fighters of Lebanon’s Shia group Hezbollah have destroyed an Israeli Merkava tank on the border between the two countries, the Al Mayadeen TV channel reported. According to it ...