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33°12′N 35°36′E / 33.2°N 35.6°E / 33.2; 35.6
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A sketch with marked mountainous parts of the Galilee and its "panhandle"
The Upper Galilee is marked red; the "panhandle" is the upper right part.

The Galilee panhandle ( Hebrew: אצבע הגליל, Etzba HaGalil (lit. "Finger of the Galilee"), is an elongated geopolitical area or " panhandle" in northern Israel comprising the northernmost section of the Upper Galilee, and the northern Jordan Rift Valley. The Galilee Panhandle incorporates five municipal authorities. [1] Towns in the Galilee panhandle include Metula and Kiryat Shmona.

The ancient site of Tel Dan is located in the Galilean panhandle.

Geography

The Galilee panhandle is a narrow strip of land running from the Israel-Lebanon border in the far north to an imaginary line below the Hula Valley, approximately between the kibbutzim Malkia and Gonen, in the south.[ citation needed]

  • View from Manara cliff
    View from Manara cliff
  • View of Kiryat Shmona from Mitzpe Liran
    View of Kiryat Shmona from Mitzpe Liran

History

In 1920, the Sykes-Picot Treaty was amended to transfer areas of Jewish settlement from the territory of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon to that of the British Mandate for Palestine. [2] From April 1924, the area came under British control. [3] An agreement was reached which enabled cultivation on both sides of the border with taxes being distributed between the British and French mandate authorities. [4] The boundary was problematic, strategically and politically, but harnessing water sources in this region was vital for the development of the country. [5]

During Operation Yiftah in April and May 1948, the Arabs living in the Galilee panhandle and the other Shia villages in Palestine were expelled by Palmach forces. [6] [7]

Cross-border raiding [8] and rocket attacks from Lebanon have been an ongoing problem for communities in the Galilee panhandle [9] In November 2011, rockets were fired into Israel, landing near the border. The incident was called "a dangerous reminder" of the 34-day war in 2006 against Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. [10]

See also

References

  1. ^ The Sources of the Jordan River, Humans and Nature
  2. ^ "N. Blanford, The Seven Villages: Origins and Implications" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
  3. ^ An Empire in the Holy Land: Historical Geography of the British Administration in Palestine, 1917–1929, Gideon Biger, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994, p. 181.
  4. ^ An Empire in the Holy Land: Historical Geography of the British Administration in Palestine, 1917–1929, Gideon Biger, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994, p. 58
  5. ^ An Empire in the Holy Land: Historical Geography of the British Administration in Palestine, 1917–1929, Gideon Biger, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994, p. 274
  6. ^ Benny Morris, 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Yale University Press, 2008, p. 161.
  7. ^ Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 249– 252.
  8. ^ "Peace Building Academy: Lebanon conflict briefing". Archived from the original on 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
  9. ^ Rocket hits Galilee panhandle
  10. ^ Israel claims rocket attack from Lebanon

External links

33°12′N 35°36′E / 33.2°N 35.6°E / 33.2; 35.6

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