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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.
Mar 6, 2021 · Haret Hreik, part of Beirut’s chaotic suburban sprawl. (Credit: João Sousa/L’Orient Today) HARET HREIK, Baabda — Looking out the window of his office in the Haret Hreik municipality building,...
Haret Hreik 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. Map.
The Haret Hreik neighbourhood and wider Dahiyeh suburbs are known as the stronghold of Beirut's Shiite community. Just opposite the sand-coloured church that sits on a small hill is the house of Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the late Lebanese Shiite cleric.
Sep 1, 2020 · The HaretHreik area (southern suburb of Beirut) is one of the most vulnerable in Lebanon. 50,000 Syrian refugees and 50,000 Lebanese citizens live in this region.
Dahieh is the Beirut stronghold of Shia militant group Hezbollah, and it had large auditoria in Haret Hreik, Hadath, Mount Lebanon and Bourj el-Barajneh, where Hezbollah followers gathered on special occasions.
The residential and commercial fabric of the southern suburbs of Beirut was severely damaged by the Israeli war on Lebanon in July and August of 2006. Most of the destruction in Beirut was concentrated within the municipal district of Haret Hreik, where at least 20,000 residents lost their homes.
