In 1875,
Victor Guérin found here many ruins, with some
Bedouin camping among the ruins. In 1881, the
PEF's
Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here: "Traces of ruins, one tomb with fourteen loculi, three
cisterns, and one olive-press."
Modern era On 31 March 1993 an
Israeli tank was destroyed and its crew killed in an ambush near Marwahin. The
DFLP claimed responsibility for the attack. Two weeks later, 13 April, a further three Israeli soldiers were killed in the
security zone. , in 1998 During the
2006 Lebanon War, Marwahin was the site of ground exchanges between
Israel and
Hezbollah, which ended with a massacre of civilians. According to
Human Rights Watch, the villagers of Marwahin reported that there had been some Hezbollah fighters and weapons in their village. Lebanese civilian
refugees from the town were first ordered by Israeli forces to flee the area, and given two hours to do so. Only two persons survived the massacre, by pretending to be dead. According to
Human Rights Watch, no weapons were found in the vehicles destroyed by the Israeli attacks and personnel who tried to recover the victims' bodies were attacked. Human Rights Watch cited it as one of nine cases where they had ascertained that Israeli warplanes targeted civilian vehicles on roads during the 2006 hostilities. The study reveals that the prime cause for the high Lebanese civilian death toll was Israel's repeated failure to abide by a fundamental obligation of war rules. ==Demographics==