US, April 11 -- Tickets are sold out for a tour in bulletproof buses with military escort visiting expanded Israel-occupied territories in Lebanon and Syria - just in time for the Passover holiday. Tourists sign up at their own risk.

Israel's military is organizing hiking tours for civilians in the newly occupied Syrian territory during the Passover holiday.. The twice-daily tours in the contested Golan Heights will run for a week this Sunday. Tickets sold out almost immediately.

Tourist groups, consisting of a few individuals, will journey up to 2.5km into Syrian territory that was previously restricted before the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took control of the Golan buffer zone following the ousting of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad ...