Al-Jibbain () is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
Etymology According to E. H. Palmer, the name means "the two pits".Palmer, 1881, p. 43
History In 1596, it was named as a village, Jibin, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 7 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats, beehives; in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 2,177 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
In 1875, Victor Guérin noted here "a few Metawileh families", who inhabited an ancient locality.Guérin, 1880, p. 130
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small village, built of stone, containing about seventy Metawileh; it is situated on a hill, with figs, olives, and arable land around. There are three cisterns for water."Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 151 They further noted a ruined, rock-cut birket.Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 169
Modern era On August 3 or 4, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli helicopter strikes killed 4 Hezbollah operatives in an uninhabited valley some 900 meters from Al-Jibbain. At the same time, they fired on the house nearest, killing 4 civilians, aged 42 to 81 years of age.HRW, 2007, pp. 129-130
Demographics In 2014 Muslims made up 99.78% of registered voters in Al-Jibbain. 98.90% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/الجبين/المذاهب/
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External links Jibbain (archive.org), Localiban Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: IAA, Wikimedia commons