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...Thursday, Sept. 17, the report continued, final arrangements were made for a Phalangist intelligence unit, headed by Elias Hobeika, intelligence chief of the Phalangist forces, to enter the camps, and at about 6 p.m. the entry occurred. That night and throughout the following day, reports reached a number of Israeli officers and enlisted men of trouble within the camps, but top Israeli military men ignored or underplayed these warnings. The report concluded that as late as 4 p.m. Friday, when he met with Phalangist commanders, Chief of Staff Eitan told them they should "continue the action, mopping up the empty...
Elul understood that the Phalangists were talking about the murder of women and children, and told Yaron what he had overheard. Yaron went over to Hobeika and spoke with him quietly for five minutes, but Elul could not hear what was said. An hour later, a Phalangist liaison officer reported to Israeli officers, including Yaron, that the Phalangists had killed large numbers of people inside the camp...
Germanos and his aides have taken testimony from more than 100 witnesses, including senior officials of the Phalangist forces that are widely believed to have committed the atrocities. Aware of the dangers his investigation poses, Germanos refuses to divulge the names of his staff. As for himself, he says, "If I worried about being killed, I would change jobs...
...uncertain what Gemayel will do with the report once Germanos delivers it to him. The Phalangist militia men still make up the most powerful Lebanese military force, and they operate as a law unto themselves. Gemayel's relationship with them is strained, and they have the power to disrupt his government...
...with impunity every day. People reason that it is both unrealistic and unwise to expect that justice will be done, since there has been no justice in Lebanon for so long a time. Many Lebanese Christians and Muslims agree that it is more important for Gemayel to disarm the Phalangist militia and work toward national reconciliation than to try and bring to justice those responsible for the Palestinian massacres. Gemayel may want a thorough investigation, but to get it he is not likely to prejudice a complex political process that may determine the survival of Lebanon as a nation...