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Shamaa (Arabic: شمع) is a village and municipality in the Tyre District of Lebanon's South Governorate, about 25 kilometres southeast of Tyre and some 99 kilometres south of Beirut. [2] It is especially known for its historical castle on a strategic hill overlooking the coastal plain of Tyre and Naqoura. [3]
South Lebanon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Linn County, Oregon, United States, [2] comprising unincorporated land on the south side of the city of Lebanon. The population was 1,005 at the 2010 census. [6] The population and area of the CDP decreased between 2000 and 2010 as the city limits of Lebanon expanded southward.
A short distance south of this place he found another ruined hamlet, having a cistern cut in the rock, and an enormous millstone lying on the ground, called Kh. Ratieh". [2] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it: "A small well-built stone village, containing about 50 Moslems, surrounded
In 2009, there were 400 members of the Saint-Élie parish of the Melkite Church in the village. [5] Since the beginning of the Hamas–Israel war on October 7, 2023, Shia Islamist group Hezbollah has joined the conflict by launching rocket and drone attacks on the occupied Shebaa farms and Israel from areas in southern Lebanon. As a result, at ...
Lebanon got independence in 1943, and Tyre became part of the new country. The city grew as an important port and cultural place. But after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, many Palestinian refugees came to Tyre. Camps like Burj El Shimali, El Buss, and Rashidieh were made for them. El Buss, which first had Armenian refugees, became mainly for ...
At Lebanon's border with Israel, residents of a Christian village are hoping war can be avoided even as they prepare for the possibility of worsening hostilities between the Lebanese Shi'ite group ...
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On August 3 or 4, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli helicopter strikes killed 4 Hezbollah operatives in an uninhabited valley some 900 meters from Al-Jibbain. At the same time, they fired on the house nearest, killing 4 civilians, aged 42 to 81 years of age.