Halloussiyeh

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Halloussiyeh
حلوسية
Village
Halloussiyeh is located in Lebanon
Halloussiyeh
Halloussiyeh
Coordinates: 33°18′29″N 35°19′35″E / 33.30806°N 35.32639°E / 33.30806; 35.32639
Grid position111/152 L
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictTyre
Elevation
920 ft (280 m)
Time zoneGMT +3

Halloussiyeh (

Litani river
.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name could possibly come from the word for "abundant herbage".[1]

History

In 1875,

Metawileh."[2]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, divided into two quarters, east and west, with [a] Moslem holy place."[3] They further noted: "The only tradition which connects this village with the past is that a wely consecrated to Neby Mohammed is said to have succeeded an ancient church."[4]

Modern era

In January 1984 Israel

soldiers detained the local Imam and five young men from the village. They then used a bulldozer to demolish the Imam’s house.[5]

On 24 July 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, 11 civilians, aged 6 to 86 years of age, were killed by Israeli air-strikes. There were no Hezbollah fighters in the village at the time.[6]

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 21
  2. ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 251; as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 91-92
  3. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 91
  4. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 116
  5. p.68
  6. ^ HRW, 2007, pp. 110-111

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