Kafra (Arabic: كفرا),[2] is a municipality in Nabatiye Governorate, in the Bint Jbeil District of southern Lebanon, about 101 kilometres (63 mi) from Beirut.

The village is located in the south-western outskirts of the town of Tebnine, in the heart of the Lebanese Shia Muslim community of Jabal Amel.

[3][4] In 1856 it was named Kefra on Kiepert's map of Palestine/Lebanon published that year,[5] while in 1875, Victor Guérin visited and noted: “'Here are broken columns, tombs, presses, cisterns, and a great reservoir cut in the rock.

[9] On 20 February 1992 the Israeli Army occupied Kafra and neighbouring Yater in a 24 hour incursion, backed by tanks, helicopters and heavy artillery.

[11] On 5 August 1997 an Israeli special commando unit killed two Hizbollah commanders in Kafra.