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With Eyes to Hezbollah, IOF Unveils «Lebanese Village» Training Center

With Eyes to Hezbollah, IOF Unveils «Lebanese Village» Training Center
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The "Israeli" entity's fear of Hezbollah and even getting defeated by the group in any future conflict led it to build a mock Lebanese village type facility as a training center.

With Eyes to Hezbollah, IOF Unveils «Lebanese Village» Training Center

On Monday, the "Israeli" army laid the cornerstone of a new training facility in the occupied Golan Heights that is meant to simulate a Lebanese village of the type "Israeli" soldiers might find themselves in should war break out with Hezbollah.

The Snir facility is meant to prepare "Israeli" soldiers for urban warfare, including subterranean combat, according to Brig. Gen. Einav Shalev, commander of the army's Ground Forces Division.

The army plans to have the training center ready for soldiers by the end of next year and construct three similar facilities in the coming years, a senior "Israeli" Occupation Forces [IOF] official told reporters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The Snir facility will take over as the "Israeli" army's most advanced urban combat training center.

Unlike the Urban Combat Center [Mali], which can only be used to train infantry soldiers, the new Snir facility is designed to allow for the Armored Corps and Combat Engineering Corps to operate their heavy tanks and engineering vehicles in the mock Lebanese village, the senior officer said.

"We understand that in a future conflict, tanks will enter Lebanese villages to take out terrorists positions. Our Armored Corps needs to be ready to operate in a rubble-filled urban environment, for example," the "Israeli" Army said.

The Snir facility will include underground elements as well. Hezbollah is known to have subterranean bunkers and tunnels.

In a statement following the groundbreaking ceremony, Shalev said that IOF troops will get ever closer to the true experience of war.

"[Snir] is a Lebanese village, showing the Lebanese challenge, which is growing greater; showing the Lebanese enemy [Hezbollah], which is developing. In the village, there are people acting as enemy fighters, who are very close to the types of threats that we expect from Hezbollah in the next round," the senior IOF officer said.

"We're studying [Hezbollah's tactics] closely. We're preparing troops to dress like Hezbollah, to act like Hezbollah, to think like Hezbollah," he said.

The "Israeli" army plans to construct the three additional urban combat training centers in the next six years, two in the Jordan Valley and one in the south of occupied Palestine.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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