Yarin

{{Infobox settlement   | name = Yarin | official_name = | other_name = | native_name = {{lang|ar|يارين}} | nickname = | settlement_type = Municipality | total_type =  | motto =  | image_skyline = | imagesize = | image_caption = | image_flag = | flag_size = | image_seal = | seal_size = | image_shield = | shield_size = | image_blank_emblem = | blank_emblem_type = | blank_emblem_size = | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = | image_map1 = | mapsize1 = | map_caption1 = | image_dot_map = | dot_mapsize = | dot_map_caption = | dot_x = | dot_y = | pushpin_map = Lebanon | pushpin_label_position =  | pushpin_map_caption = | pushpin_mapsize =  | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{LBN}} | subdivision_type2 = [[Governorates of Lebanon|Governorate]] | subdivision_name2 = [[South Governorate]] | subdivision_type3 = [[Districts of Lebanon|District]] | subdivision_name3 = [[Tyre District|Tyre]]

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==Etymology== According to [[Edward Henry Palmer|E. H. Palmer]] in 1881, the name ''Khŭrbet Yarin'' comes from "the ruin of Yârîn, p.n."<ref>Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/51/mode/1up 51]</ref>

==History== There are remains of a [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] church SE of the village site, and a "Tower or fortlet on hill top surrounded by enclosure wall built of large [[ashlar]] masonry".<ref>Pringle, 1997, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC&pg=PA115 115]</ref>

===Ottoman era=== In 1875, [[Victor Guérin]] found here 'On the east extends a sort of avenue, formerly bordered by important buildings. One remarks especially the remains of a great edifice measuring forty-five paces in length from west to east by twenty-two in breadth from north to south. It was built of finely cut stones lying one upon the other with cement, and terminated at the east in three [[apse]]s, the largest of which, that in the centre, is still partly upright. It was once an ancient [[Church (building)|church]] divided into three [[nave]]s by monolithic columns, some undulated fragments of which are lying on the ground . ..... Small cubes of mosaic in red, white, and black still adhere to the soil in several places.' <ref>Guérin, 1880, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n152/mode/1up 134]-135; as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/185/mode/1up 185]</ref> He further noted: "A large [[cistern]] located near this monument to the west was built with great care. The ruins of Yarin are now inhabited by only three or four Bedouin families, who graze their animals or cultivate a few plots of land."<ref>Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog/page/n153/mode/1up 135]</ref>

In 1881, the [[Palestine Exploration Fund|PEF]]'s [[PEF Survey of Palestine|''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP)]] found here: “Large ruin; some small-sized drafted stones with bosses left rough, two stones bearing Latin crosses; remains of modern walls and heaps of stones; two rock-cut tombs with square-headed kokim; [[Loculus (architecture)|loculi]]. In the more eastern one a figure of a human head is roughly cut out of the rock in the first chamber of the tomb, out of which two square loculi open.”<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/184/mode/1up 184]-185</ref>

===Lebanese Civil War=== In July 1977 during the [[Lebanese Civil War]], [[Kataeb Regulatory Forces|Phalangist]] forces led by [[Elie Hobeika]] carried out a massacre of [[Palestinians in Lebanon|Palestinians]] in the village, during which some 30 civilians were shot.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Tveit, Odd Karsten|author-link=Odd Karsten Tveit|title=Nederlag. Israels krig i Libanon|year=1985|publisher=[[J.W. Cappelens Forlag|Cappelen]]|language= no|ISBN= 82-02-09346-5|pages=47–50}}</ref> During the civil war in the village was attacked several times by the [[Lebanese Front|Christian forces]].

The village was occupied by the [[IDF]] during the [[First Lebanon War]] in June 1982, and was under [[Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon|Israeli control]] until May 2000, when the IDF withdrew from Lebanon.

In 1993, a Lebanese citizen who came to visit his parents in the village was kidnapped by the State of Israel, on suspicion of passing information to [[Hezbollah]]. He was held in Israel for 9 years and finally released to his home.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604172808/https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-1858428,00.html#google_vignette|url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-1858428,00.html|title=After 9 years in an Israeli prison, a Lebanese resident was released to his home|archive-date=June 4, 2020|access-date=April 27, 2002|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>

=== 2024 Israel-Hezbollah conflict === At the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, the IDF carried out several attacks against [[Hezbollah]] positions and people, in the village and in the region.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/h14orjxka|date=2024-01-13|script-title=he:לבנון: "תקיפות ישראליות בדרום המדינה"; חיזבאללה קיבל אחריות על ירי לישראל|trans-title="Lebanon: "Israeli attacks in the south of the country"; Hezbollah accepted responsibility for shooting at Israel". Ynet.|access-date=2024-02-12|lang=he}}</ref>

==Demographics== In 2014 [[Islam in Lebanon|Muslims]] made up 99.78% of registered voters in Yarin. 96.70% of the voters were [[Lebanese Sunni Muslims|Sunni Muslims]].<ref>https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/يارين/المذاهب/</ref>

==References== {{reflist|25em}} * {{Cite book|author=Tveit, Odd Karsten|author-link=Odd Karsten Tveit|title=Nederlag. Israels krig i Libanon|year=1985|publisher=[[J.W. Cappelens Forlag|Cappelen]]|language= no|ISBN= 82-02-09346-5|pages=47–50}}

==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|authorlink1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|authorlink2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]|volume=1}} *{{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|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|authorlink=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]}} *{{cite book|title= Secular buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: an archaeological Gazetter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC| last= Pringle |first= D.|author-link=Denys Pringle|year=1997|ISBN=0521 46010 7|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}} {{refend}}

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20180520122319/http://www.localiban.org/article4643.html Yarine], Localiban *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8366 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.03.jpg Wikimedia commons]

[[Category:Populated places in Tyre District]] [[Category:Sunni Muslim communities in Lebanon]]