Haret Hreik

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 village, Haret Hreik lost its rural identity due to the wave of refugees from Southern Lebanon who settled in the town and made it another urban neighborhood of Dahieh.^[1]

On 3 September 1985, during the War of the Camps, gunmen from the Amal militia killed thirteen Palestinian civilians in Haret Hreik.^[2]

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 town is the headquarters of the Shia group Hezbollah. Israeli warplanes destroyed the headquarters and civilian homes in July 2006.^[3]

^ Cambanis, Thanassis. A privilege to die: inside Hezbollah's legions and their endless war against Israel, page 146 & 317
^ Middle East International No 258, 13 September 1985, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Jim Muir pp.8-9
^ Hizbullah HQ destroyed in Israeli attacks | Israel and the Middle East | Guardian Unlimited

[1] Cambanis, Thanassis. A privilege to die: inside Hezbollah's legions and their endless war against Israel, page 146 & 317

[2] Middle East International No 258, 13 September 1985, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Jim Muir pp.8-9

[3] Hizbullah HQ destroyed in Israeli attacks | Israel and the Middle East | Guardian Unlimited

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