Grid position 176/279 PAL Governorate South Governorate Time zone GMT +3 | Country Lebanon District Tyre Population 12,000 (2011) | |
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Marwahin (Arabic: مروحين; Marwāḩīn) is a town in Lebanon, on its border with Israel. 23 people, mostly children, were massacred by Israel here during the 2006 Lebanon War.
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Map of Marwahin, Lebanon
Name
According to E. H. Palmer, the name comes either from: [..] "a place where the wind blows, effacing the traces of dwellings,' or from [..] "a fan".
History
In 1875, Victor Guérin found here many ruins, with some Bedouin camping among the ruins.
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here: "Traces of ruins, one tomb with fourteen loculi, three cisterns, and one olive-press."
Modern period
The people of the village are Sunni Muslims.
During the 2006 Lebanon War, Marwahin was the site of ground exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah. According to Human Rights Watch, the villagers of Marwahin reported that there were some Hezbollah fighters and weapons in their village.
Lebanese civilian refugees from the town were first ordered to flee the area by Israeli forces. "Marwahin 15 July 2006 The anatomy of a massacre". Independent. 2006-11-30. Retrieved 2016-08-12. </ref> Only two persons survived the attack, by playing dead. No weapons were found in the vehicles destroyed by the Israeli attacks and personnel who tried to rescue the victims' bodies were attacked. According to Human Rights Watch, 23 civilians were killed by the Israeli strikes, including 14 children and 7 women.