Qabeit, also Qabaait or Kabiit (Arabic: قبعيت), is a village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon.
The population is Sunni Muslims.
[2] The town mourned the death of 17 people connected to the area who drowned while trying to reach Australia by makeshift boat in September 2012.
[3] Qabeit is in one of the poorest parts of Lebanon and is part of a region that has received hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees during the Syrian Civil War.
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