Photo Story: Large-scale navy drill in the Mediterranean
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Israeli Navy’s INS Lahav (L), US Navy’s USS Donald Cook (2-R), French Navy’s Fremm Auvergne (C) and Hellenic Navy’s HS Aegaeon (R) take part in a joint military exercise in the Mediterranean, near the city of Haifa, Israel, 07 August 2019 (issued 09 August 2019).
Sailors from France, Greece and the United States arrived on their vessels and were joined by the Israelis off the Israeli port city of Haifa for the four-day exercise.
The joint exercise led by Israel called ‘Mighty Waves’ simulates a scenario where a 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the African Syrian Rift at the Jordan Valley area with thousands of casualties with Israel requesting international assistance from the USA, Greece and France to provide humanitarian and medical aid from air and sea.
Israeli Navy’s INS Lahav (L) and INS Hanit (R) take part with French Navy’s Fremm Auvergne (C) in a joint military exercise in the Mediterranean, near the city of Haifa, Israel, 07 August 2019 (issued 09 August 2019) during the joint exercise called ‘Mighty Waves
It was the first time Israel hosted and organised a drill of such scope.
While the region experiences frequent small earthquakes, the last major seismic event to strike Israel was in 1927. Centered in the Dead Sea and measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, it killed an estimated 500 people and injured an additional 700.
