Mayfadoun () is a municipality in Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
History In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 11 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley and olive trees; a total of 5,269 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
On 6 August 2024, four Hezbollah fighters were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the village amid renewed hostilities.
On 15 April 2026, Israeli forces carried out a quadruple tap strike in Mayfadoun. The attack targeted medical crews from the Islamic Health Association, the Islamic Risala Scout Association, and the Nabatieh Emergency Services, killing four paramedics and wounding six others.Israeli triple-tap strike kills three paramedics in Lebanon, officials say, 15 April 2026, BBC
Demographics In 2014 Muslims made up 98.79% of registered voters in Mayfadoun. 98.13% of the voters were Shiite Muslims. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/ميفدون/المذاهب/
References
Bibliography
External links Mayfadoun, Localiban