Shebaa

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Shebaa ( Arabic شبعا, DMG Šibʿā , also Chebaa , Chabaa ) is a village in southeast Lebanon in the Nabatäa governorate in the Hasbeya district . The population is predominantly Sunni .

The politically controversial area of ​​the Shebaa farms to the south does not belong to the village of Shebaa.

After the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Israeli- occupied zone in southern Lebanon in May 2000 , Lebanese soldiers reached the village of Shebaa on August 18, 2006.

literature

  • Habib Battah: Letter From Shebaa. In: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. December 2008, ISSN  8755-4917 , pp. 42–44 , (detailed travel report from Shebaa with surveys of the residents).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Image of Hezbollah damaged in south Lebanon village. January 18, 2007, on yalibnan.com ( January 6, 2009 memento in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 33 ° 20 ′ 56 "  N , 35 ° 44 ′ 55"  E