Sir el Gharbiyeh
Sir el Gharbieh () is a village just north of the Litani River, in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon. History. In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, "Sir", in the Ottoman "nahiya" (subdistrict) of Sagif under the "liwa'" (district) of Safad, with a population of 10 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 2,000 akçe. On 23 February 1985, the Israeli Army shot dead seven young men from  the village. Six of the dead were aged between fifteen and twenty. They were chosen after a round up of all the village men and machine gunned in the legs, two were bayoneted in the abdomen and one held under water until he drowned. People. Hassan Maatouk, the Lebanon national football team all-time goalscorer and most-capped player, is native to Sir el Gharbiyeh.