"The Israel Defense Forces conducted a drill this week simulating the takeover of a Palestinian village at the hands of a reserves unit. For the third time within a month, despite a complaint filed with the Military Advocate General, Brigadier General Avihai Mandelblit, the IDF conducted a takeover exercise at Beit Lid, a village near Tul Karm. Last week, Haaretz reported that several IDF reserves soldiers approached the human rights group Yesh Din and complained over two exercises that were carried out by a reserves paratrooper brigade in Beit Lid as well as Safarin, another area village. In these exercises, the troops were commanded to take over the village, even though the villagers were not considered especially hostile and there had been no warnings of militants hiding among them."