Israel builds camp in occupied Golan to prepare for Lebanon combat

Israel has constructed a new military training facility in the occupied Golan Heights to prepare for a possible fresh round of warfare in southern Lebanon, according to reports.

Dubbed the 'Lebanon facility', the camp was unveiled on Sunday with tunnels, alleyways, and apartment blocks constructed to create an environment for realistic urban combat in Lebanon.

It also includes replicated bombed-out neighbourhoods that appear designed to replicate the devastated towns and villages of southern Lebanon.

Israel's war against Hezbollah killed over 4,000 Lebanese. and injured 17,000 others, which led to whole residential areas in southern Lebanon being utterly destroyed.

It is designed to allow 7th and 401st brigades commando and infantry units to prepare for a possible new bout of fighting in Lebanon and was opened last week.

A ceasefire in November reduced Israeli large-scale bombing of Lebanon, but Israeli airstrikes on the country have continued, while Israeli forces still occupy parts of the south.

Israel launched a new round of air strikes in the Bekaa Valley on Monday, claiming to target a Hezbollah unit, which emerged during the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon during the civil war.

There are concens that the planned withdrawal of UNIFIL soldiers in southern Lebanon could spark new Israeli incursions in the country.

Israel illegally seized the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967, building settlements and military facilities across the occupied territory in the decades that followed.

US President Donald Trump sparked global outrage when he recognised Israel's claims over the Golan, although the vast majority of countries in the world still see it as illegally occupied land.

Israel has made waves of incursions into Syria since the fall of the Assad regime in December, killing dozens of Syrian civilians and soldiers in airstrikes, shelling, and shootings.