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Bint Jbeil (Arabic: بنت جبيل, romanized: Bint Jubayl; Levantine pronunciation: [bɪnt ʒbeːl], "daughter of (the) little mountain" or "daughter of Byblos") is the second largest municipality in the Nabatiye Governorate in Southern Lebanon.
The Battle of Bint Jbeil was one of the main battles of the 2006 Lebanon War. Bint Jbeil is a major town of some 20,000 (mainly Shia ) inhabitants in Southern Lebanon . Although Brigadier General Gal Hirsch announced on 25 July that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had "complete control" of Bint Jbeil, this statement was later discredited.
Its present Arabic name Jubayl (جبيل) or J(e)beil is a direct descendant of these earlier names, although apparently modified by a misunderstanding of the name as the triliteral root GBL or JBL, meaning "mountain". When the Arabic form of the name is used, it is typically rendered Jbeil, Jbail, or Jbayl in English.
Rmaish (also spelled Rmeish, Rmaich, and Rmeich; Arabic: رميش) is a municipality located in the District of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, south of Ain Ebel, near the Lebanese-Israeli border covering an area of 20 km 2 (7.7 sq mi). The ruins found in the village indicate that the area was occupied by the Romans and the Crusaders at some stage in history.
In Bint Jbeil, large swathes of which have been reduced to rubble, the atmosphere is tense. We were warned not to walk further down one street due to the potential for incoming Israeli fire.
The strike late on Tuesday, part of a flare-up of border area hostilities between Israeli and Hezbollah forces, hit a home in the town of Bint Jbeil, where the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah ...
The Bint Jbeil District (Arabic: قضاء بنت جبيل, Qaḍāʾ Bint Jubayl) is a district in the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon. The capital of the district is Bint Jbeil . Municipalities
There was a reform of the seat distribution of parliamentary constituencies in 1957, but Bint Jbeil remained a single-member constituency. Instead the neighbouring electoral district of Nabatieh was awarded an additional Shia seat. Ahmad al-As'ad argued that this move had been done deliberately to curtail his political influence. [4]