Kfar Dunin ( ar, كفردونين) is a village in
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
, 102 km from the capital
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
and 580 m from sea coast remote. Adjacent villages:
Deir Kifa
Deir Kifa ( ar, دير كيفا ) is a local authority in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
Name
E. H. Palmer wrote in 1881 that it meant ''The convent of Kifa''. p.n.
Kifa is a Syriac Aramaic word tha ...
, Alkaline,
Khirbat Silm,
Der Ntar. It is considered first of villages in
Bent Jbeil
Bint Jbeil () is the second largest town in the Nabatiye Governorate in Southern Lebanon.
The town has an estimated population of 30,000. Its exact population is unknown, because Lebanon has not conducted a population census since 1932.
Histo ...
district of
Nabatieh Governorate. Its population is 6000 people.
History
In 1875
Victor Guérin
Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 Septembe 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist. He published books describing the geography, archeology and history of the areas he explored, which included Greece, Asia Mino ...
noted: "Near a little mosque are well-cut stones, the remains of a demolished church, of which
there also survive fragments of monolithic columns and several broken capitals, strewing the soil in several places, and especially near the Sheikh's house.' He estimated that the village had 350 to 400
Metawileh inhabitants.
In 1881, the
PEF's
''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it as: "A village, built of stone, containing about 150
Metawileh, on a hill, surrounded by figs, olives, and arable land. The water is obtained from a spring near and cisterns in the village."
At the beginning of March 1986 a
Ghanaian soldier serving with
UNIFIL
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon ( ar, قوة الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان, he, כוח האו"ם הזמני בלבנון), or UNIFIL ( ar, يونيفيل, he, יוניפי״ל), is a UN peacekeeping m ...
was shot and injured by an
Israeli soldier
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...
in Kafr Dunin. The Israelis had launched a search operation, the largest since their withdrawal to their
security zone in June 1985, looking for two of their soldiers who had been captured. Two Israelis were killed in the operation.
[Middle East International No 270, 7 March 1986, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Jim Muir p.10]
References
Bibliography
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96
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External links
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2
IAAWikimedia commons
Localiban
{{Bint Jbeil District
Populated places in the Israeli security zone 1985–2000
Populated places in Bint Jbeil District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon