Kaifun

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Kaifun
كيفون
Administration
Country Flag of Lebanon Lebanon
Governorate Mount Lebanon Governorate
District Aley District
Geography
Kaifun (Lebanon)
Kaifun
Kaifun
Location of Kaifun, Lebanon
Elevation 853–913 m  (2,799–2,995 ft)

Kaifun (also transliterated Kafun,Kaifoun) is a village in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Aley District, in the Republic of Lebanon. It lies slightly south of the village of Souk El Gharb

The town has a majority Shia population. During the Israeli-Hezbollah 2006 War its population, swelled by refugees, went from about 3,00 to 50,000 over stretching its water supply and causing a humanitarian crisis.[1]