Al-Aadaissah

Al-Aadaissah or Odaisseh (Arabic: العديسة / BGN: Aadaïssé / ISO 233: Al `Udaysah; also Adaisseh, Adessé, Odeissé, Odeissah and other spellings) is a municipality in south Lebanon.

In 1875, Victor Guérin described it as "an elevated plateau crowned with the ruins of a small fort of rectangular form, measuring forty paces long by thirty broad.

[3] On the 21-23 October, 2024, a number of buildings in Al-Aadaissah were demolished by the Israeli military, among them a cultural centre and the family home of Lubnan Baalbaki, the conductor of Lebanon's philharmonic orchestra.

The centre was full of his father's, the artist Abdel-Hamid Baalbaki (ar), collection of fine art and pottery, in addition to 2,000 manuscripts and books.

[8] Al-Aadaissah had observation and various missile lunchers posts situated around the village and its countryside from which several attacks were carried out on the nearby, lower, Israeli civilian settlements.

Sign in Odaisseh, overlooking Israel
The Lebanese village of Al-Aadaissah as seen from Israel