Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...militiamen spent the night at slaughter, calling on the Israeli army to send up hundreds of flares and star shells over the camps to illuminate their bloody work. "Thursday night was an inferno," recalls a medical worker at Gaza Hospital. "The sky was never dark. The shooting never stopped. The people screamed." Not content with merely shooting people, the assailants used ropes and hatchets; many of the victims were bound together and mutilated. Some people were killed in their homes, while others were dragged outside to be murdered. Judging from the debris that was left, some of the soldiers...
...small arms and a few rocket-propelled grenades. Their resistance may have had some effect: Friday morning, the militiamen had begun to fall back from their northernmost penetration of the camps. At 9 a.m., the two Oukli brothers were able to return to some parts of Shatila from the Gaza Hospital area without encountering any of the killers. When the Ouklis reached their home, they found a pile of 15 dead, mostly their relatives, outside the door...
...that time, word of the massacre had spread and panic swept through the camps. The throngs of refugees who had gathered at Gaza Hospital took off on foot to find shelter farther north. Along with them went 45 patients from the hospital, who fled their beds and joined the exodus. For a time, said a European staffer who remained behind, "it was deadly, deadly silent." Some survivors, meanwhile, later recalled seeing Christian militiamen operating a roadblock near the southern entrance to the camps, while hundreds of Israeli soldiers stood...
About 4 p.m. some 500 people set out from the area north of Gaza Hospital in an attempt to seek refuge in downtown West Beirut. They soon encountered a group of Israeli soldiers. They were ordered to go back, and one of them lowered his gun on the group. The panic-stricken refugees sent a man forward to talk to the Israelis, while the others waited in the street. The emissary shouted that Sa'ad Haddad's men were killing people in the camps and that the crowd wanted to seek shelter. "I cannot do anything," came...
...West Beirut. The massacre compounded the problem: it raised questions about the determination and the ability of the U.S. to see to it that Israel lives up to its commitments to guarantee the security of refugees in Lebanon and others in future arrangements for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The renewed bloodshed in Lebanon, as President Reagan noted last week, proves the urgent need for a broad agreement. Unless all parties quickly acknowledge that need, however, the week's multiple tragedies could prove not merely a severe short-term setback to the tortuous search for peace...