Kfar Shouba (), also known as Kfarshouba and Kafr Shuba, is a municipality in the

Hasbaya District The Hasbaya District is one of the four districts in the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon. It lies in the southeast, bordering Syria to the east and Israel to the south. The capital of the district is Hasbaya, a town with a population that is most ...

of the

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. The people of the village are Sunni Muslims. It is situated in the region of Arkoub, at 1256 m above sea level and 130 km from Beirut. Located near the border of

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and the Golan Heights, not far from the

Shebaa Farms The Shebaa Farms, also spelled Sheba'a Farms (, '; ''Havot Sheba‘a),'' also known as Mount Dov (), is a strip of land on the Lebanese–Syrian border that is currently occupied by Israel. Lebanon claims the Shebaa Farms as its own territory ...

, it overlooks in depth both

and the Lebanese Bekaa, which makes it a strategic military location.

History

The village was occupied by

i troops during a punitive mission, in the wake of

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attacks inside Israel, on the 26 of February 1972, and was devastated by a major Israeli attack conducted in January 1975. It was bombed and rocketed by Israeli warcraft further on 15 June, and shelled again by Israeli artillery on 31 August, of that year. The mosque in the village was destroyed by Israeli artillery in 1972 but partially rebuilt. It was struck by Israeli air raids and artillery fire in April 2002 after

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fired rockets at Israeli army positions in the occupied

. In retaliation for a Hezbollah retaliatory strike against an Israeli patrol on the 28 January 2015, the village was shelled by IDF artillery fire, together with the two other border villages of Majidiyeh, Abbasiyeh. Kfar Shouba is the second largest village in southern Lebanon, which also contains the largest number of young graduates in the Caza of Hasbaya. The Lebanese Army, as well as

, say that Israel is still occupying the general area in which the village is located, known as the Kfarshouba Hills. It stands in mountainous terrain. According to a video posted by the ''Alma Research and Education Center'' rockets were fired from a high school in the village during the

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in October 2023.

Landmarks

* The Shkif (in Arabic الشقيف) * Ajami, and Mobaraki Sheikh Salam: Considered to be The three major holy chains.

Demographics

In 2014

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made up 98.15% of registered voters in Kfar Shouba. 94.34% of the voters were

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Large families and notables

* Largest families: Al-Kadri (القادري), Kassab (قصب), Abdallah (عبدالله), Diab (ذياب), Ghanem (غانم), Chibli (شبلي), Saleh (صالح), Khebbaiz (خبيز) * President of the municipal council: Dr Kassem El Kadiri * Mayors: Mohammad Kassab (Abu Naser), Mohamad Hamed, Ali Salah Diab * Director of Secondary school: Mohamad El Kadiri * Director of primary school: Ahmad Toufic Kassab

Agriculture

Kfar Shouba farms produce

olives The olive, botanical name ''Olea europaea'' ("European olive"), is a species of Subtropics, subtropical evergreen tree in the Family (biology), family Oleaceae. Originating in Anatolia, Asia Minor, it is abundant throughout the Mediterranean ...

(over 100 tonnes in 2006 including

olive oil Olive oil is a vegetable oil obtained by pressing whole olives (the fruit of ''Olea europaea'', a traditional Tree fruit, tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin) and extracting the oil. It is commonly used in cooking for frying foods, as a cond ...

figs The fig is the edible fruit of ''Ficus carica'', a species of tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Moraceae, native to the Mediterranean region, together with western and southern Asia. It has been cultivated since ancient times and i ...

grapes A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus ''Vitis''. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began approximately 8,0 ...

, and

cherries A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus ''Prunus'', and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit). Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet ''Prunus avium'' and the sour ''Prunus cerasus''. The name ...

References

External links

Kfar Chouba (Nkhayleh)
Localiban
www.kafarchouba.com
{{Hasbaya District Populated places in Hasbaya District Sunni Muslim communities in Lebanon