Al-Jumayjimah

Al-Jumayjimah (Arabic: الجميجمة) is a municipality in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon, located north-east of Tibnin.

[1] 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.

"[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 Al-Jumayjimah.

One Irish soldier was killed, bring the total number of Unifil soldiers killed to 187, 33 of them from Ireland.

[3] In 2014 Muslims made up 99.75% of registered voters in Al-Jumayjimah.