16-18 September 1982. The Sabra and Shatila massacre was a massacre of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians carried out by the Jewish Entity and its Christian proxy militia in Lebanon.

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) in control of Beirut, surrounded Beirut’s Palestinian refugee camps, then allowed Christian Phalangist militiamen to massacre between 2500 and 3500 Muslim civilians.

16-18 September 1982

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The Sabra and Shatila massacre was a massacre of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians carried out between September 16 and 18, 1982 by the Jewish Entity and its Christian proxy militia in Lebanon.

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) in control of Beirut, surrounded Beirut’s Palestinian refugee camps, then allowed Christian Phalangist militiamen to massacre between 2500 and 3500 Muslim civilians.

Yeshayahu Leibovitz, professor at Hebrew University and editor of Encylopedia Hebraica on the massacres at Sabra & Shatila: “The massacre was done by us. The Phalangists are our mercenaries. Exactly as the Ukrainians and the Croatians and the Slovakians were the mercenaries of Hitler, who organized them as soldiers to do the work for him. Even so we organized the assassins in Lebanon in order to murder the Palestinians.”

A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli novelist, on the massacre at Sabra & Shatila: “What happened at the refugee camps in Beirut is the logical consequence of all that took place in the past months. A logical sequence, and almost an unavoidable one. What can one say? Even if I could believe that IDF soldiers who stood at a distance of 100 meters from the camps did not know what happened, then this would be the same lack of knowledge of the Germans who stood outside Buchenwald and Treblinka and did not know what was happening! We too did not want to know.”