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ISRAEL is gearing up for a deterioration in the region, with a growing number of new threats facing the Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu made the comments as he watched an exercise simulating the response to a chemical attack on a residential neighbourhood in Jerusalem as part of an annual civil defence drill.
His remarks came after several ministers raised the alarm over the planned delivery of Russian anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad has been waging a bloody two-year war against insurgents bent on overthrowing him.
“These things we are seeing here are meant to protect Israel from an accumulation of new threats. These threats are piling up around us,” he said in remarks communicated by his bureau.
Israel, he said, was working with “prudence and great responsibility” but was gearing up for the regional situation to get worse.
“We are anticipating a deterioration,” Netanyahu said, without elaborating
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