| Official Name: | Jebchit |
| Native Name: | Arabic: جبشيت |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Lebanon |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Lebanon |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | Nabatieh Governorate |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Nabatieh District |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | +3 |
| Coordinates: | 33.3639°N 35.43°W |
| Grid Position: | 121/159 L |
Jebchit (Arabic: جبشيت) is a village in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon located north of the Litani River.
In 1596, it was named as a village, Jibsid, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 39 households and 10 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, fruit trees, goats, beehives and "Occasional revenues"; a total of 5,040 akçe.[1] [2]
In 1875 Victor Guérin found here a village of 400 Metualis, and a Wali, named Nabi Seth.[3]
On the night of 27/28 July 1989 Israeli commandos abducted the Hizbullah leader Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid and two of his aides from his home in Jibchit. The operation was planned by the then Minister of Defence Yitzhak Rabin. Hizbullah responded by announcing the execution of Colonel Higgins a senior American officer working with UNIFIL who had been kidnapped in February 1988.[4]
In 1993, during a week-long attack by Israel on Lebanon; "an Israeli Army spokesperson said that "70 percent of the village of Jibshit is totally destroyed, its inhabitants will not recognize it." The goal is "to wipe the villages from the face of the earth," a senior officer added."[5]
. Victor Guérin. Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. 1880. L'Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. French.