Jibbain

Coordinates: 33°7′23″N 35°14′1″E / 33.12306°N 35.23361°E / 33.12306; 35.23361
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Jibbain
الجبين
Jebbayn, Jebbine
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Jibbain (

Arabic: الجبين) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon
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Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the two pits".[1]

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, Jibin, in the

Safad, with a population of 7 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats, beehives; in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 2,177 akçe.[2][3]

In 1875,

Metawileh families", who inhabited an ancient locality.[4]

In 1881, the

Metawileh; it is situated on a hill, with figs, olives, and arable land around. There are three cisterns for water."[5] They further noted a ruined, rock-cut birket.[6]

Modern era

On August 3 or 4, 2006, during the

Israeli helicopter strikes killed 4 Hezbollah operatives in an uninhabited valley some 900 meters from Jibbain. At the same time, they fired on the house nearest, killing 4 civilians, aged 42 to 81 years of age.[7]

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 43
  2. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180
  3. ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  4. ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 130
  5. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 151
  6. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 169
  7. ^ HRW, 2007, pp. 129-130

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