Sabra and Shatila refugee camps
Sabra and Shatila were Beirut Palestinian refugee camps where Lebanese Christian militias massacred between 800 and 3,500 people in September 1982 while Israeli forces controlled the surrounding perimeter, resulting in an Israeli commission finding Ariel Sharon bore indirect responsibility.
The Sabra and Shatila refugee camps are located in Beirut, Lebanon. They were the site of the Sabra and Shatila massacres in September 1982, where Lebanese Christian militias carried out killings while the camps were surrounded by Israeli troops.1
Sources
- Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩
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