Twenty armored Mercedes-Benz cars that served Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon are being given to Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to protect them against Palestinian attacks, according to Israel’s Defense Ministry. Israeli forces had used the vehicles, some of which had Lebanese licence plates, to try to blend into the local scene in southern Lebanon and avoid ambushes by the Hezbollah gunmen.
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