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Muhaibib (Arabic: محيبيب), also spelled Mhaibib, is a municipality in the Marjayoun District in southern Lebanon.
Muhaibib holds a shrine to Benjamin, who Islam considers a prophet, which attracts pilgrims and visitors. In October 2024, Israeli forces demolished and bombed the entire village including the shrine.[1][2]
E. H. Palmer wrote that the name Neby Muheibîb meant "the prophet Muheibîb", "beloved".[3]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Neby Muheibib as: "a small village [a]round the stone Neby, containing about seventy Moslems, situated on top of ridge, with olives and arable land; there are two cisterns in the village."[4]
During the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) released footage of themselves destroying nearly the entirety of Muhaibib.[5][6] The New York Times connected a statement in which the IDF claimed that they had 'dismantled a tunnel network used by Hezbollah's elite Redwan Forces' to the destruction of the village.[5] Al Jazeera published footage of Israeli soldiers they claimed were celebrating the destruction of the village.[7]
The spokesperson for the US Department of State, Matthew Miller, said that "we do not want to see entire villages destroyed", nor "civilian homes".[8] He claimed that there was potential for Hezbollah presence inside civilian homes.[5] He then said: "I don't know what was in those buildings, I don't know what was potentially underneath those buildings."[9]
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.55% of registered voters in Muhaibib. 97.91% of the voters were Shiite Muslims. [10]
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