Aynata

Aynata عيناتا
State :	Lebanon
Governorate :
District:	Bint-Jbeil (District)
Coordinates :	33 ° 8 ′  N , 35 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 8 ′  N , 35 ° 26 ′  E
Height :	740  m
Area :	4.37
Residents :	1,300
Time zone :	UTC + 2
Telephone code :	([phone]
Aynata

Aynata (also: Aaynata Arabic عيناتا) is a village in Lebanon . The village is located in the Bint-Jbeil district in the Nabatäa governorate , about 120 km from Beirut . As a hideout for Hezbollah , the village was bombed from Israel in the 2006 Lebanon War and 60% of the buildings were destroyed.

geography

Aaynata has a changing population. Around 5,000 people live there in summer, while only around 1,300 people live there in winter. The place is 740 m above sea level . The area borders on the municipalities of Bint-Jbeil , Aaitaroun and Yaroun . At times it was occupied by Israel and many residents have migrated to the southern suburbs of Beirut. In 2000, Israel withdrew from the area.

The terrain consists of plateaus at different altitudes. Several valleys and wadis separate the village from the neighboring villages. Tobacco and olives are grown. There is a Mediterranean climate with warm summers and rainy winters.

history

In 1596 the place is mentioned as Aynata in the Ottoman Nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin (part of Safad ). At that time there were 111 households and 22 bachelors, all Muslims. the inhabitants paid taxes on agricultural products such as wheat, barley, wine and fruit, they kept goats and raised bees. The tax revenue amounted to 10,560 Akçe .

In 1875 Victor Guérin found a village with 400 Metualis ( Shiites ).

In 1881 the Palestine Exploration Fund wrote in the Survey of Western Palestine (SWP): "A village built of stone, with about 500 metawileh. There is a Muslim school in the village; many vineyards and some olive trees in the wady. Water comes from the birket (Landsee / Village pond) and from many cisterns . "

present

Aynata is the hometown of Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah .

During the 2006 Lebanon War, an Israeli missile killed 4 civilians on July 19, 2006. On July 24, a missile destroyed two other houses in the village, killing all 12 inmates. 8 of them were civilians.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to Palmer 1881, p. 66 , the place was named after a personal name.
2. ↑ Thanassis Cambanis: Reclaiming bodies and shattered lives in Lebanon . In: The Boston Globe , August 16, 2006. 
3. ↑ Michael Slackman: Where Outsiders, and Fear, Loom Over Daily Life . In: The New York Times , July 11, 2007. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Aaynata Localiban
5. ↑ Hütteroth & Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 179
6. ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 374
7. ↑ "A village, built of stone, containing about 500 Metawileh. There is a Moslem school in the village; extensive vineyards and a few olives in the wady. Water supplied from birket and many cisterns." Conder & Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 200
8. ↑ HRW, 2007, p 105 -106
9. ↑ HRW, 2007, p 112 -113

literature

• Claude Reignier Conder, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener The Survey of Western Palestine : Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archeology. London, Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund 1881, vol. 1.
• Victor Guérin : Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine ( French ), Volume 3: Galilee, pt. 2. L'Imprimerie Nationale, Paris 1880.
• HRW : Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon During the 2006 War . Human Rights Watch, 2007.
• Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth, Kamal Abdulfattah: Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century . Erlangen Geographical Works, special volume 5. Erlangen, Germany: Board of Directors of the Franconian Geographical Society, 1977, ISBN 3-920405-41-2 .
• EH Palmer : The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, RE Transliterated and Explained by EH Palmer . Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund , 1881.
• Harold Rhode : Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century . Columbia University , 1979.

Web links

• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA , Wikimedia commons
• Aaynata (Bent Jbeil) , Localiban