Majdal Zoun or Majdalzoun (Arabic: مجدل زون) is a municipality in the Tyre district of Southern Lebanon.
[citation needed] In 1596, it was named as a village, Majdal Zurayd, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 5 households, all Muslim.
The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats & beehives; in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on winter pastures; a total of 3,100 akçe.
[3][4] In 1881, the village was described under the name El Mejdel ("The watch-tower"[5]) in the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) as "A large and conspicuous village, containing about 400 Moslems ; it is situated on a hill, with figs, olives, and arable land.
[6] Situated near the Israeli–Lebanese border,[7] the town has been the target of numerous Israeli airstrikes throughout the conflict since 2023.