Israeli Army Operation

NEGEV VALLEY, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 13: Israeli armor flips open various types of portable bridges so that armor including tanks, one of which fires a shell (top, R) can cross a anti-tank trench as the Isralei army puts on a massive training exercise at a base near the Uvda Valley on October 13, 2004 in the Negev Desert. The training exercise involved infantry, armor corps, engineers and air force with the objective to take a Palestinian town constructed mostly of small wooden houses. Smoke rises behnd from artillery fired from kilometers away. (Photo by Jim Hollander-Pool/Getty Images