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...blast they heard next wasn't theirs. "I saw a flash of light that was thrown at us, but it didn't reach us. Immediately after, another flash of light," Sergeant Ron Drori told TIME. "I understood right away it was a bomb." It wasn't a suicide attack, as early reports suggested, but a bomb thrown from a balcony. When the device detonated just feet from the soldiers, Palestinians on the roof opposite opened up with automatic weapons. "It was like a curtain of fire," said Drori. "We couldn't see anything, and all we could hear...
During a brief lull, Drori retreated behind a courtyard wall and returned fire until a magazine in his M-203 rifle jammed. He switched to a grenade launcher attached to the rifle. His fire drew an answer, and he was hit in the leg. Of the 16 men in his company, only three escaped being wounded or killed...
Despite this and other indications of mass murder, Yaron failed to report the information to his superior, General Drori, that night or the following day. Afterward, when everyone knew about the massacre, Yaron told colleagues that "the whole [military] system showed insensitivity." He added, "I did badly, I admit it." The commission agreed. It recommended that Yaron should not serve as a field commander for at least three years...
...commission decided that no action should be taken against the head of Mossad (whose identity is never disclosed), since he had served as the agency's director for only four days at the time of the massacre. The commission also recommended that no action be taken against General Drori, who had made some effort to get the Phalangists out of the camps, even though he had failed to "continue with these actions...
...operation. This was already some 24 hours after the massacre in the camps had begun. Sharon said Eitan told him that the Lebanese Forces had harmed Palestinian civilians "more than had been anticipated." Added Eitan: "They went too far." Accordingly, Sharon testified, Eitan and the northern front commander, Amir Drori, had prevented additional Christian forces from entering the fighting areas and had ordered the Lebanese Forces out of the camps by 5 a.m., Sept...