Marwahin

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title: "Marwahin" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-the-israeli-security-zone-1985–2000", "populated-places-in-tyre-district", "sunni-muslim-communities-in-lebanon"] topic_path: "geography/israel" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwahin" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Marwahin
native_name	مروحين
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subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Tyre
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elevation_m	660
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grid_position	176/279 PAL
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|postal_code = |area_code = |website = |footnotes = Marwahin (; Marwāḩīn) is a municipality in Lebanon, on its border with Israel.

Etymology

According to E. H. Palmer, the name comes either from: [..] "a place where the wind blows, effacing the traces of dwellings,' or from [..] "a fan".

History

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here many ruins, with some Bedouin camping among the ruins.

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here: "Traces of ruins, one tomb with fourteen loculi, three cisterns, and one olive-press."

Modern era

On 31 March 1993 an Israeli tank was destroyed and its crew killed in an ambush near Marwahin. The DFLP claimed responsibility for the attack. Two weeks later, 13 April, a further three Israeli soldiers were killed in the security zone. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Carcom_IDF_military_post_in_south_Lebanon_security_belt_1998.jpg" caption="The Israeli military outpost of Karkom, in [[occupied South Lebanon]], in 1998"] ::

During the 2006 Lebanon War, Marwahin was the site of ground exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah, which ended with a massacre of civilians. According to Human Rights Watch, the villagers of Marwahin reported that there had been some Hezbollah fighters and weapons in their village.

Lebanese civilian refugees from the town were first ordered by Israeli forces to flee the area, and given two hours to do so. They were then slaughtered in a convoy hit by an Israeli helicopter crew when they proceeded to obey the order to evacuate. Only two persons survived the massacre, by pretending to be dead. According to Human Rights Watch, no weapons were found in the vehicles destroyed by the Israeli attacks and personnel who tried to recover the victims' bodies were attacked. Human Rights Watch cited it as one of nine cases where they had ascertained that Israeli warplanes targeted civilian vehicles on roads during the 2006 hostilities. It stated that 23 civilians from this one village were killed by the Israeli strike, including 14 children and 7 women.{{cite news |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2006/dec/21/human-rights-watch-and-israel-an-exchange/?pagination=false |title=Human Rights Watch and Israel: An Exchange |publisher=The New York Review of Books |date=2006-11-02 |accessdate=2012-05-12}} The study reveals that the prime cause for the high Lebanese civilian death toll was Israel's repeated failure to abide by a fundamental obligation of war rules.

On October 8, 2024, during a ground operation in the area, the Israeli military announced the dismantling of a Hezbollah tunnel that extended approximately 25 meters into Israeli territory from the area of Marwahin.

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 99.67% of registered voters in Marwahin. 95.67% of the voters were Sunni Muslims. Before the start of the most recent Israel-Hezbollah War (in 2023), the town had between 3,000 and 4,000 residents, all of whom were displaced by the conflict.

References

Bibliography

References

1. Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/49/mode/1up 49]
2. Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n151/mode/1up 133]
3. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/179/mode/1up 179]
4. [[Middle East International]] No 450, 14 April (sic - actually June) 1993, Publishers [[Christopher Mayhew. Lord Mayhew]], [[Dennis Walters. Dennis Walters MP]]; April chronology p.15
5. [https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/lebanon0907.pdf 'Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 War,'] [[Human Rights Watch]] Volume 19, No. 5(E) September 2007 pp.8,15,44,66,147-
6. Fisk, Robert. (2009-07-01). "Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask". [[The Independent]].
7. HRW, 2007, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8P9-VqpNRv4C&pg=PA147 147]-151
8. (2024-10-08). "Israel army says dismantled Hezbollah tunnel that crossed into Israel".
9. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/مروحين/المذاهب/
10. سعد, حسين. "مروحين خالية من السكان منكوبة بدمارها.. محروقة أرضها بالفوسفور". almodon.

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