Aalma ash-Shaab
Aalma ash-Shaab (Arabic: علما الشعب) is a municipality in the Tyre District, in Southern Lebanon.In 1875, during the late Ottoman period, Victor Guérin found here a village with 350 inhabitants, mostly Greek catholics, or Maronite.There is a spring within reach, and about thirty rock-cut cisterns in the village.”[4] In 2009, there were 400 members of the Saint-Élie parish of the Melkite Church in the village.[5] Since the beginning of the Hamas–Israel war on October 7, 2023, Shia Islamist group Hezbollah has joined the conflict by launching rocket and drone attacks on the occupied Shebaa farms and Israel from areas in southern Lebanon.Israel has conducted retaliatory strikes targeting "Hezbollah infrastructure", which according to the deputy mayor, destroyed several structures in the village.
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