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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211; Fri Feb 4, 2011 11:10AM</div>
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<div id="divLead">Israel  has started an extensive military exercise in occupied Golan Heights in  the southwestern Syria, simulating warfare as turmoil convulses the  region.</div>
<p>The maneuvers started on Wednesday, enlisting thousands of soldiers  and hundreds of tanks as well as helicopters and unmanned aircraft,  Xinhua reported on Friday.</p>
<p>The two sides are technically at war due to Israel&#8217;s continued  occupation of the mountainous region since 1967, when Tel Aviv captured  vast expanses of Arab territories during full-scale military offensives.</p>
<p>The drills came amid countrywide anti-regime protests in Egypt. A  key ally of Israel, Cairo has helped Tel Aviv keep the Gaza Strip under a  tight siege, which has been depriving the coastal sliver&#8217;s 1.5-million  Palestinians of food, fuel and other necessities since its enforcement  in mid-June 2007.</p>
<p>The protests entered their 11th day on Saturday and have been  coincidental with anti-government demonstrations in Yemen and Jordan.</p>
<p>The rallies were motivated by Tunisia&#8217;s recent revolution, which  ended the 23-year-long rule of former President Zine El Abidin Ben Ali.</p>
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