Israel’s army redraws wartime supply routes to avoid Arab villages
Military officials are considering the possibility of local Arab uprisings in Israeli towns as they modify wartime plans.
The Israeli military has redrawn wartime logistics plans to avoid some Arab-majority towns in Israel following an outbreak of violence during the conflict with Gaza earlier this year.
The Israel Defense Forces’ logistics directorate mapped out some 1,600 km of dirt roads which can be used as alternate routes to supply frontline forces in case of war, the directorate’s commander, Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Turgeman, said Friday during an interview with Maariv news.
Turgemen said that the army had formed new anti-riot units to defend convoys and supply lines. In the future, those routes would most likely not run through the Wadi Ara area, which holds a number of Palestinian-majority towns along a major highway that leads to Israel’s north.
The general said he is “really concerned” about “the impact of violent disturbances on internal security and movement of transport convoys.”
