Jumayjimah

Jumayjimah (Arabic: جميجمة) is a village in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon, located north-east of Tebnine.

Jumayjimah
جميجمة
village
Map showing the location of Jumayjimah within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Jumayjimah within Lebanon
Jumayjimah
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°12′23″N 35°26′27″E
Grid position191/290 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh
DistrictBint Jbeil
Elevation
690 m (2,260 ft)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+961

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, the name El Jumeijmeh comes from "The little sculls".[1]

History

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small village of stone and mud, containing about 100 Metawileh, situated on hill-top, with a few olives and figs around. Water supply from cisterns."[2]

On 29 September 1992, following an attack on a South Lebanon Army outpost in Rachaf, Hizbullah fighters shot their way through a Unifil checkpoint at Jumayjimah. One Irish soldier was killed, bring the total number of Unifil soldiers killed to 187, 33 of them from Ireland.[3]

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 23
  2. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 94-95
  3. Middle East International No 435, 9 October 1992, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Gerald Butt p.11

Bibliography

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