# Yarin

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Municipality in Lebanon

Yarin يارين Municipality Yarin Coordinates: 33°06′23″N 35°14′01″E / 33.10639°N 35.23361°E / 33.10639; 35.23361 Grid position 172/279 PAL Country Lebanon Governorate South Governorate District Tyre Area • Water 0 sq mi (0 km2) Elevation 1,380 ft (420 m) Population (2015) • Total 2,115 Time zone GMT +3

**Yarin** ([Arabic](/source/Arabic_language): يارين, [romanized](/source/Romanization_of_Arabic): *Yārīn*) is a municipality in the [Tyre District](/source/Tyre_District) in [southern Lebanon](/source/Southern_Lebanon), located 19 kilometres south of [Tyre](/source/Tyre%2C_Lebanon).

## Etymology

According to [E. H. Palmer](/source/Edward_Henry_Palmer) in 1881, the name *Khŭrbet Yarin* comes from "the ruin of Yârîn, p.n."[1]

## History

There are remains of a [Byzantine](/source/Byzantine_Empire) church SE of the village site, and a "Tower or fortlet on hill top surrounded by enclosure wall built of large [ashlar](/source/Ashlar) masonry".[2]

### Ottoman era

In 1875, [Victor Guérin](/source/Victor_Gu%C3%A9rin) 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 [apses](/source/Apse), the largest of which, that in the centre, is still partly upright. It was once an ancient [church](/source/Church_(building)) divided into three [naves](/source/Nave) 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.' [3] He further noted: "A large [cistern](/source/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."[4]

In 1881, the [PEF](/source/Palestine_Exploration_Fund)'s [*Survey of Western Palestine* (SWP)](/source/PEF_Survey_of_Palestine) 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; [loculi](/source/Loculus_(architecture)). 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.”[5]

### Lebanese Civil War

In July 1977 during the [Lebanese Civil War](/source/Lebanese_Civil_War), [Phalangist](/source/Kataeb_Regulatory_Forces) forces led by [Elie Hobeika](/source/Elie_Hobeika) carried out a massacre of [Palestinians](/source/Palestinians_in_Lebanon) in the village, during which some 30 civilians were shot.[6] During the civil war in the village was attacked several times by the [Christian forces](/source/Lebanese_Front).

The village was occupied by the [IDF](/source/IDF) during the [First Lebanon War](/source/First_Lebanon_War) in June 1982, and was under [Israeli control](/source/Israeli_occupation_of_Southern_Lebanon) 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](/source/Hezbollah). He was held in Israel for 9 years and finally released to his home.[7]

### 2024 Israel-Hezbollah conflict

At the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, the IDF carried out several attacks against [Hezbollah](/source/Hezbollah) positions and people, in the village and in the region.[8]

## Demographics

In 2014 [Muslims](/source/Islam_in_Lebanon) made up 99.78% of registered voters in Yarin. 96.70% of the voters were [Sunni Muslims](/source/Lebanese_Sunni_Muslims).[9]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Palmer, 1881, p. [51](https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/51/mode/1up)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Pringle, 1997, p. [115](https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC&pg=PA115)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Guérin, 1880, pp. [134](https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n152/mode/1up)-135; as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [185](https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/185/mode/1up)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Guérin, 1880, p. [135](https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog/page/n153/mode/1up)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. [184](https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/184/mode/1up)-185

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Tveit, Odd Karsten](/source/Odd_Karsten_Tveit) (1985). *Nederlag. Israels krig i Libanon* (in Norwegian). [Cappelen](/source/J.W._Cappelens_Forlag). pp. 47–50. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [82-02-09346-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/82-02-09346-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["After 9 years in an Israeli prison, a Lebanese resident was released to his home"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200604172808/https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-1858428,00.html#google_vignette). Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2002.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_bot:_original_URL_status_unknown))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [לבנון: "תקיפות ישראליות בדרום המדינה"; חיזבאללה קיבל אחריות על ירי לישראל](https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/h14orjxka) ["Lebanon: "Israeli attacks in the south of the country"; Hezbollah accepted responsibility for shooting at Israel". Ynet.] (in Hebrew). 2024-01-13. Retrieved 2024-02-12.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/يارين/المذاهب/](https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/يارين/المذاهب/)

- [Tveit, Odd Karsten](/source/Odd_Karsten_Tveit) (1985). *Nederlag. Israels krig i Libanon* (in Norwegian). [Cappelen](/source/J.W._Cappelens_Forlag). pp. 47–50. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [82-02-09346-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/82-02-09346-5).

## Bibliography

- [Conder, C.R.](/source/Claude_Reignier_Conder); [Kitchener, H.H.](/source/Herbert_Kitchener%2C_1st_Earl_Kitchener) (1881). [*The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology*](https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft). Vol. 1. London: [Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund](/source/Palestine_Exploration_Fund).

- [Guérin, V.](/source/Victor_Gu%C3%A9rin) (1880). [*Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine*](https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog) (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.

- [Palmer, E.H.](/source/Edward_Henry_Palmer) (1881). [*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*](https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft). [Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund](/source/Palestine_Exploration_Fund).

- [Pringle, D.](/source/Denys_Pringle) (1997). [*Secular buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: an archaeological Gazetter*](https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC). [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0521 46010 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0521_46010_7).

## External links

- [Yarine](https://web.archive.org/web/20180520122319/http://www.localiban.org/article4643.html), Localiban

- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: [IAA](http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8366), [Wikimedia commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.03.jpg)

v t e Tyre District, South Governorate Capital: Tyre Towns and villages Aaitit Aalma ash-Shaab Abbassiyeh Ain Abu Aabdallah Ain az-Zarqa Ain Baal Arzoun Baflay Barish Al-Basatin Batoulay Al-Bayyad Al-Bazouriyah Bedias Bestiyat Burj el-Shamali Al-Burghuliyah Burj Rahal Al-Bustan Debaal Deir Aames Deir Kifa Deir Qanoun an-Naher Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain Derdghaya Ad-Duhairah Al-Halloussiyah Al-Hamairi Hannaouiyah Al-Hanniye Jannata Jebal al-Bottom Al-Jibbain Jwaya Al-Knaissah Maarakeh Maaroub Mahrouna Al-Majadel Majdal Zoun Malikiyat as-Sahel Al-Mansouri Marwahin Mazraat Meshref An-Naffakhiyah An-Naqoura Qana Al-Qlailah Ar-Ramadiyah Reshknanay As-Sammaaiyah Seddiqin Selaa Ash-Shaaitiyah Shabriha Shamaa Shehour Chehabiyeh Shihin Srifa Tayr Debba Tayr Felsay Tayr Harfa Toura Tyre Wadi Jilou Yanouh Yarin Zalloutieh Zibqin Palestinian refugee camps Burj el-Shamali Al-Buss Rashidieh Notable landmark Umm al-Amad Ladder of Tyre

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