Aalma ash-Shaab () is a municipality in the Tyre District, in Southern Lebanon.
According to E. H. Palmer, âÂÂAlma means "a coat of mail", while Shảub means "mountain spurs".
According to Dr. Anis Freyha in his dictionary of Lebanese settlement names, âÃÂà('A-L-M), the root of the name 'Alma, is Semitic and could mean "the hidden" or sexual maturity, the same as in Phoenician, Aramaic and Hebrew.
In 1875, during the late Ottoman period, Victor Guérin found here a village with 350 inhabitants, mostly Greek Catholics and Maronites.
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: âÂÂA large Christian village, containing about 500 inhabitants. The houses are clean and well built. There are two chapels, and the place seems increasing in size. It is situated on a ridge, with figs, olives, and pomegranates and arable land around. To the east and north the land is covered with brushwood. There is a spring within reach, and about thirty rock-cut cisterns in the village.âÂÂ
In 2009, there were 400 members of the Saint-ÃÂlie (Elijah) parish of the Melkite Church in the village.
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, Shia Islamist group Hezbollah has joined the conflict by launching rocket and drone attacks on the occupied Shebaa farms and Israel from areas in southern Lebanon. As a result, at least 800 residents have fled the village out of fear of getting caught in the crossfire, with only about 100 remaining. Israel has conducted retaliatory strikes targeting what they claim is "Hezbollah infrastructure", which according to the deputy mayor destroyed several structures in the village. On 8 March 2026, the brother of the town's parish priest was killed in an Israeli strike.
In 2014, Christians made up 98.06% of registered voters in Aalma ash-Shaab. 42.62% of the voters were Maronite Catholics and 39.19% were Greek Catholics.