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Al-Qlailah

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Al-Qlailah
القليلة
Municipality
Al-Qlailah is located in Lebanon
Al-Qlailah
Al-Qlailah
Coordinates: 33°11′47″N 35°13′52″E / 33.19639°N 35.23111°E / 33.19639; 35.23111
Grid position171/289 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictTyre
Elevation
100 ft (30 m)
Time zoneGMT +3

Al-Qlailah (Arabic: القليلة) is a municipality in the Tyre District in South Lebanon.

Etymology

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According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, the name Leileh comes from a female proper name; it also means “night”.[1]

History

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In 1875, Victor Guérin describes a ruin to the east of the village, which he calls Kh. Kleileh. "The upright of oil-presses, a winepress cut in the rock, with two compartments, one round and one square, and three broken sarcophagi, are all that remain here. A short distance south of this place he found another ruined hamlet, having a cistern cut in the rock, and an enormous millstone lying on the ground, called Kh. Ratieh".[2]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small well-built stone village, containing about 50 Moslems, surrounded by olives and arable ground. The water supply is from 'Ain Zaheiriyeh."[3]

On 13 May 2021, shortly after the beginning of the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, a number of rockets – apparently Soviet-era short-range Grad projectiles – were fired from the coastal area of Al-Qlailah, just south of the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidieh towards northern Israel. According to some reports, three rockets were involved which all fell into the Mediterranean Sea, causing no damage.[4][5] According to other sources, altogether five missiles were launched and two of them crashed onto Lebanese grounds, while three got lost off the coast.[6]

Demographics

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In 2014 Muslims made up 99.38% of registered voters in Al-Qlailah. 98.06% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 9
  2. ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 238; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 68
  3. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 50
  4. ^ "Lebanon: Rockets launched from coastal region towards Israel". Middle East Eye. 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  5. ^ Rose, Sunniva (2021-05-14). "Israel-Palestine tension unlikely to spill over to Lebanon for now despite rocket launch". The National. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  6. ^ "Two missiles fired towards Israel from southern Lebanon - TV". TASS. 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  7. ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/القليلة/المذاهب/

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