Ghandouriyeh ( ar, غندورية) is a Lebanese municipality located in the

Bint Jbeil District The Bint Jbeil District is a district in the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon. The capital of the district is Bint Jbeil. Villages The following 36 municipalities are all located in the Bint Jbeil District: * Aynata * Aayta Ech Chaab * Aayta Ej ...

, south of

Froun Froun ( ar, فرون) is a village in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon. Name According to E. H. Palmer, the name ''Furûn'' comes from "the ovens" or "reservoirs". History In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) ...

. It was formerly known as ''Aidib''.

Name

In the 1800s, the village was called Aidib, and

E. H. Palmer Edward Henry Palmer (7 August 184010 August 1882), known as E. H. Palmer, was an England, English oriental studies, orientalist and explorer. Biography Youth and education Palmer was born in Green Street, Cambridge the son of a private schoo ...

wrote in 1881 that the name came from a local form connected with “much sand”.

History

In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described ''Aidib'' as: "A small village, built of stone and mud, situated on the slope of a hill and surrounded by a few fig-trees and olives. It contains about ninety

Metawileh Lebanese Shia Muslims ( ar, المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيين), historically known as ''matāwila'' ( ar, متاولة, plural of ''mutawālin'' ebanese pronounced as ''metouali'' refers to Lebanese people who are adherents ...

, and is supplied with water from three rock-cut

cistern A cistern (Middle English ', from Latin ', from ', "box", from Greek ', "basket") is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by t ...

s and a spring." During the 2006 Israeli offensive against

Hizbollah Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's parami ...

Israeli

Nahal Nahal ( he, נח"ל) (acronym of ''Noar Halutzi Lohem'', lit. Fighting Pioneer Youth) is a program that combines military service with mostly social welfare and informal education projects such as youth movement activities, as well as training ...

commandos were airlifted into Ghanduriyah. A column of tanks attempting to reach them was ambushed in Wadi Salouqi. Eleven tanks were hit and seventeen Israeli soldiers killed, with fifty wounded. Hirst, David (2010) ''Beware of Small States. Lebanon, battleground of the Middle East.'' Faber and Faber. pp.372-373

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External links

Ghandouriyeh
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{{Bint Jbeil District Populated places in Bint Jbeil District Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon