The Israel Defense Force and U.S. armed forces have held their first joint exercise under an agreement by both countries to provide medical assistance in cases of accident or natural disaster to the forces of either in the region.
Voice of Israel Radio, quoting an IDF spokesman, said the exercise involved the transportation of hypothetical wounded American servicemen from a U.S. vessel at sea in the Eastern Mediterranean to an Israeli hospital ashore.
The agreement between the two countries, concluded several months ago, came about after Israel reproached the U.S. for not using its nearby medical facilities for marines wounded in the truck bomb attack on their headquarters in Beirut last October.
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