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During Israel’s first full scale invasion of Lebanon, Operation Litani, March 1978, most of the population of Nabatieh fled their homes in a bombardment that, according to the New York Times, left "[h]ardly a house [ ] intact". The 20 March report continues "There are only 25 to 30 families left in the once prosperous farm center of 40,000 ...
Amsheet (عمشيت, ʿAmšīt; also spelled Amchit) is a seaside town and municipality in the Byblos District of Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon, about 40 km north of Beirut. The town's average elevation is 140 meters above sea level and its total land area is 595 hectares . [ 1 ]
Lebanon was the only Arab country whose Jewish population increased after the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948, reaching around 10,000 people. [22] However, after the Lebanon Crisis of 1958 , many Lebanese Jews left the country, especially for Israel , France , United States , Canada and Latin America (mostly to Brazil ).
About half the population of the Mount Lebanon subdivision, overwhelmingly Maronites, starved to death (200,000 killed out of 400,000 of the total populace) throughout the years of 1915–1918 during what is now known as the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon, [52] as a consequence of a mixed combination of crop failure, punitive governance ...
Insurgency in South Lebanon (1968–1982) Israel. Free Lebanon. South Lebanon Army. Lebanese Front. Kataeb Party. PLO Syria. LNM. Supported by: Soviet Union [3] Israeli and Lebanese victory. PLO ousted from Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War, relocated to Tunis. Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) LF Syria
A crater in Dahieh in 2008, two years after the 2006 Lebanon War. Hezbollah's television station, Al-Manar, was targeted in the area. [1] [9]Hours after the August 14, 2006, ceasefire, Hezbollah pledged to reconstruct houses for the residents of Dahieh, and offered rent money for the period in which they were being built.
Prophet Seth) is a village in eastern Lebanon, located in the Beqaa Valley [2] and Baalbek District. [1] The village's name comes from the considered burial-site of Seth the son of Adam . A mosque was built on the burial site and it contains the grave of Seth inside the mosque (a rival tradition placed Seth's tomb in the Palestinian village of ...
Lebanon's native sign language is the Lebanese dialect of Levantine Arabic Sign Language. English is the fourth language by number of users, after Levantine, MSA, and French. Lebanon's official language, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), [130]: 1917 has no native speakers in or outside Lebanon. [131]