Jebchit ( ar, جبشيت) is a village in the
Nabatieh Governorate region of southern
Lebanon located north of the
Litani River.
History
In 1596, it was named as a village, ''Jibsid'', in the
Ottoman ''
nahiya'' (subdistrict) of Sagif under the ''
liwa''' (district) of
Safad, with a population of 39 households and 10 bachelors, all
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as
wheat,
barley, olive trees, fruit trees, goats, beehives and "Occasional revenues"; a total of 5,040
akçe
The ''akçe'' or ''akça'' (also spelled ''akche'', ''akcheh''; ota, آقچه; ) refers to a silver coin which was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. The word itself evolved from the word "silver or silver money", this word is deri ...
.
[Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 184]
In 1875
Victor Guérin found here a village of 400
Metualis, and a
Wali, named Nabi Seth.
On the night of 27/28 July 1989 Israeli commandos abducted the
Hizbullah leader Sheikh
Abdel Karim Obeid and two of his aides from his home in Jibchit. The operation was planned by the then Minister of Defence
Yitzhak Rabin. Hizbullah responded by announcing the execution of
Colonel Higgins a senior American officer working 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 ...
who had been kidnapped in February 1988.
In 1993, during a
week-long attack by
Israel on Lebanon; "an Israeli Army spokesperson said that “70 percent of the village of Jibshit is totally destroyed, its inhabitants will not recognize it.” The goal is “to wipe the villages from the face of the earth,” a senior officer added."
[ Noam Chomsky]
“Limited War” in Lebanon
orig. published in Z Magazine, September, 1993
See also
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Abdel Karim Obeid
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Ragheb Harb
Ragheb Harb ( ar, راغب حرب; 1952–1984 was a Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric. He was born in Jibchit in 1952, a village in the Jabal Amel region of Southern Lebanon. Harb was an imam and led the regional Shiite resistance against I ...
References
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External links
*Official Website
www.jebchit.com
Localiban
{{Nabatieh District
Populated places in Nabatieh District
Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon