As-Sarafand

As-Sarafand (Arabic: الصرفند) is a municipality in southern Lebanon located 10 km south of Sidon overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

As-Sarafand is an Arabic rendition of the Phoenician place-name Ṣrpt,[2] after Classical Sarepta, just north of Sarafand.

[4] In mid-April 1980 Israeli commandos, arriving by sea, raided As-Sarafand killing twenty Lebanese and Palestinians, mostly civilians.

During the first three weeks of April the Israelis carried out similar, but smaller, raids along the coast road between Sidon and Tyre, killing thirteen people.

[5] On 7 June 1982, on the second day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon an IDF brigade was ambushed as it pushed through As-Sarafand.

Sarepta and Sarafand in the 1862 Carte du Liban