Deserted village mosque at Hittin

Hittin (Arabic: حطّين‎, transliterated Ḥiṭṭīn (Arabic: حِـطِّـيْـن‎) or Ḥaṭṭīn (Arabic: حَـطِّـيْـن‎)) was a Palestinian village located 8 kilometers (5 mi) west of Tiberias. As the site of the Battle of Hattin in 1187, in which Saladin conquered most of Palestine from the Crusaders, it has become an Arab nationalist symbol. The shrine of Nabi Shu’ayb, venerated by the Druze and Sunni Muslims as the tomb of Jethro, is on the village land. The village was ruled by the Ottoman Empire from the 16th century until the end of World War I, when Palestine became part of the British Mandate for Palestine. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the village was depopulated.