Haret Hreik (Arabic: حارة حريك) is a mixed Shia and Maronite Christian municipality, in the Dahieh suburbs, south of Beirut, Lebanon. It is part of the Baabda District. Once an agricultural and Christian village, Haret Hreik lost its rural and Christian identity due to the wave of Shia Muslim refugees from Southern Lebanon who settled in the town and made it another urban neighborhood of Dahieh.[1]
Haret Hreik is located northeast of the Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport and north of the towns of Laylake and Bourj el-Barajneh, west of Hadath and south of Chyah. The district is the de-facto epicenter of the Shia group Hezbollah. The district was heavily damaged in the July 2006 Hezbollah War by the Israeli airforce that destroyed 640 kilometres (400 miles) of roads, 73 bridges, and 31 other targets such as sea ports, water and sewage treatment plants, electrical facilities, 25 fuel stations, 900 commercial structures, up to 350 schools and two hospitals, and 130,000 residences.[2][failed verification]
On 3 September 1985, during the War of the Camps, gunmen from the Amal militia killed thirteen Palestinian civilians in Haret Hreik.[3]
In July 2024, Israeli military announced that they had targeted and killed senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in an airstrike launched by Israeli fighter jets on a building in the southern suburb of Beirut.
- ^ Cambanis, Thanassis. A privilege to die: inside Hezbollah's legions and their endless war against Israel, page 146 & 317
- ^ "Hizbullah HQ destroyed in Israeli attacks". The Guardian. 14 July 2006. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ Middle East International No 258, 13 September 1985, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Jim Muir pp.8-9