Zhabel is a village in the Dushkaja subregion in the Gjakova municipality of Kosovo.

Zhabel consists of Albanian toponomy, such as Shpati (slope), Grykat (gorges), Ara e Madhe (big field), Kodra e Trimave (hill of the brave), Përroni i Vogël (little stream), Fangi, Lugina e Maliqëve (valley of the Maliqi) Livadhet e Gata (long meadows), Lugu i Sokolëve, Livadhet e Mëdha (big meadows), Kroni i Mllokës, Kodra e Malësorëve (hill of the highlanders) etc.

[3] In 1913 as part of war crimes committed against ethnic Albanians intended to transform the ethnic character of the region, Montenegrin forces pillaged and burned down the Albanian village of Zhabel and massacred the local population.

[4] In between the two World Wars, Yugoslavia settled 8 Serb and Montenegrin colonist families in Zhabel with the intention of changing the traditionally Albanian ethnic structure of the region.

The Catholic families of this neighbourhood - the Kaçanukët (of the Nikaj-Mërtur tribe) and the Dedaj - have moved to the village of Lugbunar near Gjakova.