Qlaileh ( ar, القليلة ) is a town in the

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in South

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Name

According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name ''Leileh'' comes from a female proper name; it also means “night”.

History

In 1875,

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describes a ruin to the east of the village, which he calls ''Kh. Kleileh''. "The upright of oil-presses, a winepress cut in the rock, with two compartments, one round and one square, and three broken

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, are all that remain here. A short distance south of this place he found another ruined

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, having a cistern cut in the rock, and an enormous millstone lying on the ground, called ''Kh. Ratieh''". In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A small well-built stone village, containing about 50

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s, surrounded by olives and arable ground. The water supply is from Ain Zaheiriyeh.''" On 13 May 2021, shortly after the beginning of the

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, a number of rockets - apparently

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-era short-range Grad projectiles - were fired from the coastal area of Qlaileh just South of the Palestinian refugee camp of

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towards

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. According to some reports, three rockets were involved which all fell into the

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, causing no damage According to other sources, altogether five missiles were launched and two of them crashed onto Lebanese grounds, while three got lost off the coast.

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External links

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