Jebchit

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'''Jibchit''' ({{langx|ar|جبشيت|Jibshīt}}; also Romanized ''Jibshit'', ''Jibsheet'', etc.) is a municipality in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon located north of the Litani River.

==History== In 1596, named ''Jibsid'', it was a village in the Ottoman ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of Sagif under the ''liwa''' (district) of Safad, with a population of 39 households and 10 bachelors, all Muslim. 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''.<ref name="Hutteroth">Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 184</ref><ref>Note that Rhode, 1979, p. [https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010135324/http://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |date=2016-10-10 }} writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9</ref>

In 1875 Victor Guérin found here a village of 400 Metualis, and a Wali, named Nabi Seth.<ref>Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n567/mode/1up 527]</ref>

On the night of 27/28 July 1989, Israeli occupation commandos abducted the Hezbollah 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. Hezbollah responded by announcing the execution of Colonel Higgins, a senior American officer working with UNIFIL who had been kidnapped in February 1988.<ref>Middle East International No 356, 4 August 1989, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Jim Muir pp.3,4; Peretz Kidron p.5</ref>

In 1993, during a week-long attack by Israel on Lebanon, an Israeli Army spokesperson said that "70 percent of the village of Jibchit is totally destroyed, its inhabitants will not recognize it." The goal was "to wipe the villages from the face of the earth," a senior officer added.<ref>Noam Chomsky, [https://chomsky.info/199309__/ "Limited War" in Lebanon], orig. published in Z Magazine, September, 1993</ref>

==Demographics== In 2014, Muslims made up 99.76% of registered voters in Jibchit. 99.05% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.<ref> https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/جبشيت/المذاهب/ </ref>

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==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book |last=Guérin|first=V.|authorlink=Victor Guérin |title=Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog|volume=3: Galilee, pt. 2|year=1880|publisher=L'Imprimerie Nationale|location=Paris|language=French}} *{{cite book |last1=Hütteroth |first1=W.-D.|author-link1=Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth |last2=Abdulfattah|first2=K. |author-link2=Kamal Abdulfattah |title=Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqULAAAAIAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft |isbn=3-920405-41-2 }} *{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Rhode |first=H. |author-link=Harold Rhode |date=1979 |url=https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |title=Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=2017-12-04 |archive-date=2016-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010135324/http://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |url-status=dead }} {{refend}}

==External links== *Official Website : [http://www.jebchit.com www.jebchit.com] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20170709065218/http://www.localiban.org/article4422.html Jibchit (archive.org)], Localiban {{Nabatieh District}}

Category:Populated places in Nabatieh District Category:Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon