Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hospital. Early Friday morning, after refugees who stayed the night had fled, four doctors tried to leave the institution under a white flag. A hand grenade was thrown at them; three were killed. A few hours later, a group of militiamen entered the hospital and threatened the staff. A Palestinian nurse was repeatedly raped, then shot to death. Two Palestinian doctors were later taken away from Acca by the militia to an unknown fate...
...street. The gunmen cut the throat of the proprietor, who was hiding inside, and then guzzled a bottle of whisky. At Gaza Hospital the staff of 22 doctors and nurses, mostly Europeans, were rounded up and marched away. As the medics passed a group of lounging militiamen, a Palestinian male nurse was pulled out of the group, taken around a corner and shot. Later, the killers identified another male nurse as a Palestinian. He too was shot. Recalled one of the medics: "I thought to myself, 'My God, they are just getting all the foreigners out so they...
...remaining hospital staff was taken out of the camp and after an interrogation was turned over to Israeli soldiers across the street from Shatila. Soon the Palestinian civilians who had been rounded up in Sabra began following them. But these had one last ordeal to face. As the crowd of several hundred panicky refugees approached the southern gate of Shatila, the militiamen segregated them by sex. The men were ordered to march past a parked Land Rover. From inside the vehicle, a man pointed out those who should be separated from the rest. The selected ones were led away. Their...
...disorder. Finally, Americans charged that Ambassador to Washington Moshe Arens assured them on Begin's behalf that the Israelis would seize only "a few" strategic points in West Beirut. Instead, they took over the whole Muslim section of the city and then arranged for Christian militiamen to enter Palestinian refugee camps, with bloodcurdling consequences...
...become a kind of unofficial policy in the world. The statistics of mass murder in the past decade or so (at least 100,000 Hutus killed by Tutsis in Burundi, for example, or the million or three Cambodians dead under Pol Pot) somehow should make the deaths in the Palestinian camps seem less cataclysmic, less imposingly significant. Horrible, of course. But Lebanese Christians and Muslims have been trafficking in such mutual slaughter forever. Their blood feud in the past seven years has taken more than 60,000 lives...