Ain ad-Delb (عين الدلب) is a municipality in the

Sidon District The Sidon District () is a district within the South Governorate of Lebanon. Municipalities The following 53 municipalities are all located in the Sidon District: * Aabra * Al-Aaddoussiyah * Aadloun * Aanqoun * Aaqtanit * Ain ad-Delb * An ...

of the

South Governorate South Governorate (, or simply ) is one of the governorates of Lebanon, with a population of 590,000 inhabitants and an area of 929.6 km2. The capital is Sidon. The lowest elevation is sea-level; the highest is 1,000 meters. The local popul ...

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

History

In 1875

Victor Guérin Victor Guérin (; 15 September 1821 – 21 September 1890) was a French people, French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist. He published books describing the geography, archeology and history of the areas he explored, which included ...

found the village to be inhabited by

Maronite Maronites (; ) are a Syriac Christianity, Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant (particularly Lebanon) whose members belong to the Maronite Church. The largest concentration has traditionally re ...

s. On 29 September 2024, a series of Israeli missile strikes destroyed a six-storey building, killed 73 people, and injured at least 29 others, making it the single deadliest Israeli strike in its conflict in Lebanon. The IDF stated that the strike was on a "terrorist command centre" for Hezbollah, had killed a Hezbollah commander, and that "the overwhelming majority" of the dead were "confirmed to be terror operatives". A January 2025 report by the

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was able to verify the identities of 68 of the dead, and found only six with Hezbollah links, none of whom were in senior positions. The remainder were civilians, including 23 children.

Demographics

In 2014

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made up 98.49% of registered voters in Ain ad-Delb. 61.92% of the voters were

Maronite Catholics The Maronite Church (; ) is an Eastern Catholic ''sui iuris'' particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. The head of the Maronite ...

and 32.66% were

Greek Catholics Greek Catholic Church or Byzantine-Catholic Church may refer to: * The Catholic Church in Greece * The Eastern Catholic Churches that use the Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite: ** The Albanian Greek Catholic Church ** The Belarusian Gre ...

References

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External links

Official web page
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