In 1838,
Eli Smith noted
Yahmur as a village on the West side of the
Beqaa Valley. On 15 April 1996, during the
seventeen day bombardment of south Lebanon by the
Israeli army and
air force, the hydroelectric power station on the
Litani River, one kilometre north-east of Yohmor, was destroyed in an air raid. A
HRW report published in 2011 described Yohmor as having a population of 7,500, consisting of around 400 families. 60% of the workforce where involved in agriculture. 150 families made their living growing tobacco. On 12 August 2006, two days before the end of the
2006 Lebanon War, Yohmor was blitzed by the
IDF with
155mm artillery and air strikes.
Cluster bombs landed on the village. Most of the inhabitants had fled the war zone and only twenty families remained. Unexploded bomblets littered the roads, gardens, on roofs and inside houses. Investigators found
US made CBU-58 and BLU-63 bombs as well as missile fragments date stamped 1973. In the following two months, as villagers returned to their homes, one person was killed and five injured by these weapons. ==References==