Al-Qlailah () is a municipality in the

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in South

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Etymology

According to

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

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 ...

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

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...

, having a

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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 Al-Qlailah, just south of the Palestinian refugee camp of

Rashidieh Rashidieh, or Ar-Rashidiyah is the second most populous Palestinian refugee camps, Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, located on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast about five kilometres south of the city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre (Sur). ...

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.

Demographics

In 2014

Muslims Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

made up 99.38% of registered voters in Al-Qlailah. 98.06% of the voters were

Shiite Muslims Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community (imam). However, his right is understood to ...

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References

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External links

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{{Tyre District Populated places in Tyre District Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon