Destruction of historical town of Yaroun by Israeli Army

No.

8301

Date

8 October, 2024

Found by

@AZKARKOUR

Location

📍 Lebanon - South Lebanon - Yaroun

Original Social Media Post

"A background on #Yaroun, a biblical town in South #Lebanon turned to dust by #Israel In December 1863, Louis Félicien de Saulcy, the #French orientalist and archaeologist examined the ruins of a temple in Yaroun, with a huge sarcophagi and sepulchral excavations, deducing that Yaroun was the Biblical town of Iaraoun, mentioned in the Book of Joshua (xiv. 38) Around 1865 Ernest Renan found many antiquities in Yaroun during his mission to Lebanon and described it in his book Mission de Phénicie (1865-1874). According to Victor Guérin, who visited in 1870, the town had 300 Greek Orthodox #Christians and 200 Shia Muslims. He described the local church, devoted to St. George ("Mar Jeryis") In October 2024, "the most moral army in the world", intoxicated by its air force monopoly and military superiority, reduced Yaroun to rubble""
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Yaroun used to be a lively small town, with a mixed Shia Muslim and Greek-Catholic population. A land of emigration, many of its people settled in Bell, California. After a year of Israeli bombardments, this is what remains of it on October 8, 2023.

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