Qabeit
Qabeit, also Qabaait or Kabiit (Arabic: قبعيت), is a village in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon. The population is Sunni Muslims.
History
The town mourned the death of 17 people connected to the area who drowned while trying to reach Australia by makeshift boat in September 2012. Qabeit is in one of the poorest parts of Lebanon and is part of a region that has received hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees during the Syrian Civil War.
References
- ^ Qabaait, localiban
- ^ "Municipal and ikhtiyariah elections in Northern Lebanon" (PDF). The Monthly. March 2010. p. 21. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Lebanese village mourns deaths of asylum-seekers in boat disaster". Channel NewsAsia. 2015-07-10. Archived from the original on 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
- ^ "Survivor of Java boat capsize speaks about tragedy". ABC News. 2013-10-06. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
- ^ "Smugglers behind Lebanese asylum-seekers deaths of Java". Yahoo News. 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
External links
- Qabaait, Localiban