{"id":106119,"date":"2026-06-01T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=106119"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:51:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:21:40","slug":"beaufort-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/beaufort-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaufort Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Beaufort Castle Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid the West Asia conflict, Israel has pushed itself deeper into Lebanon recently, capturing the historic Beaufort Castle and the surrounding strategic ridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Beaufort Castle<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beaufort Castle \u2014 known locally as <\/span><b>Qalaat al-Shaqif <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or the \u201c<\/span><b>Castle of the High Rock&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a <\/span><b>medieval fortress<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> situated<\/span><b> atop a commanding hill near the city of Nabatieh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>southern Lebanon.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located just<\/span><b> 14.5 km from the Israeli border.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally<\/span><b> built by Crusaders in the 12th century,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the castle has <\/span><b>changed hands multiple times <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">throughout history, passing through <\/span><b>Crusader, Muslim, Mamluk, and Ottoman control.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the best-preserved examples of medieval castles in the Near East.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its impressive architecture, with a high castle and a low castle, demonstrates its <\/span><b>defensive role in the Middle Ages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>overlooks <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vast stretches of <\/span><b>southern Lebanon,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Litani River valley,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>parts of northern Israel,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> making it a<\/span><b> position of considerable strategic value.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The castle has also been at the <\/span><b>centre of fighting in the past.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><b>1982, amid the Lebanon War, Israel captured<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Beaufort Castle from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and <\/span><b>held it until it withdrew from Lebanon in 2000.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/explainers\/israel-capture-beaufort-castle-lebanon-hezbollah-significance-14017373.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>FP<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beaufort Castle is a medieval fortress situated atop a commanding hill near the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon. 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