Between September 14 and 16 40 years ago, fighters from the Phalange, Lebanese Forces militia and Saad Haddad's Israeli-surrogate South Lebanon Army carried out the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian civilians living in the Sabra and Shatila neighbourhoods of southern Beirut. The killings were perpetrated while the Israeli army, which had occupied Lebanon from the southern
Between September 14 and 16 40 years ago, fighters from the Phalange, Lebanese Forces militia and Saad Haddad's Israeli-surrogate South Lebanon Army carried out the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian civilians living in the Sabra and Shatila neighbourhoods of southern Beirut. The killings were perpetrated while the Israeli army, which had occupied Lebanon from the southern
On this day in 1978, Israeli military forces finally withdrew from Lebanon three months after their invasion of southern Lebanon in an effort to hunt down and eliminate the Palestinian Liberation Orga.