Shia villages in Palestine

As part of this change, seven villages in which the population was predominantly Shia Muslim (i.e., Metouali) were transferred to Palestine: Tarbikha, Saliha, Malkiyeh, Nabi Yusha, Qadas, Hunin, and Abil al-Qamh.

Some Lebanese political parties and militias, such as Hezbollah, have asserted that the sites of these villages in northern Israel belong to Lebanon.

[2] However, the establishment of modern national borders disrupted these longstanding connections and complicated the social and legal identities that had existed prior to the Mandate period.

[2] In September 1920, the first French high commissioner General Henri Gouraud, announced the birth of the state of Greater Lebanon.

[7] Israeli communities partly or completely on the lands of the former villages include Yuval, Shomera, Zar'it, Shtula, Margaliot, Ramot Naftali, Yir'on, Yiftah, and Malkia.