Grid position 172/280 PAL District Tyre District | Country Lebanon Time zone EET (UTC+2) | |
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Governorate South Lebanon Governorate | ||
Jibbain (Arabic: الجبين) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
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Map of Jebbayn, Lebanon
Name
According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the two pits".
History
In 1596, it was named as a village, Jibin, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of 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.
In 1875 Victor Guérin noted here "a few Metawileh families", who inhabited an ancient locality.
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small village, built of stone, containing about seventy Metawileh; it is situated on a hill, with figs, olives, and arable land around. There are three cisterns for water." They further noted a ruined, rock-cut birket.
Modern era
On August 3 or 4, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli helicopter strikes killed 4 Hizbollah 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.