Rab Thalathin () is a municipality in the Marjayoun District in southern Lebanon.
Etymology According to E. H. Palmer, the name Rubb Thelâthin comes from rubb meaning syrup; and thelâthin meaning thirty.Palmer, 1881, p. 32
History In 1875, Victor Guérin found it to be a village inhabited by Metawileh. He further remarked that the mosque was constructed out of parts from an old church.Guérin, 1880, p. 272
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "several lintels and cisterns."Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 138
They further described it: "A small village, built of stone, containing about 100 Metawileh, situated on a hill-top, surrounded by figs and arable land; water supply from cisterns and spring near, and a small birket.Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 89-90
Modern era During the 2006 Lebanon War, on the 10th of August, Israeli missiles killed five women in the village, aged from 31 to 82 years of age. According to Human Rights Watch there were no indications that Hezbollah fighters were present at the time of the strikes.HRW, 2007, pp. 142-143
In October 2024 the IDF announced that it blew up a large underground complex at Rab Thalathin, said to have been in construction for a decade or more. The complex was capable of hosting 200 Hezbollah militants, and included computerized communications control rooms, supplies for months, ammunition on a battalion scale, RPGs, long-range anti-tank missiles, charges of various sizes, hundreds of rifles, and other tactical equipment. This was the largest ever engineered explosion by the IDF.
Demographics In 2014 Muslims made up 99.56% of registered voters in Rab Thalathin. 97.05% of the voters were Shiite Muslims. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/مرجعيون/ربثلاثين/المذاهب/
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External links Rabb Et Talatine, Localiban Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons