Word: sabra
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...other members of the multinational peace-keeping force had already taken up their positions by the time the Marines landed. France's 1,560 men were stationed in the northern part of the capital, including the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, where the massacre took place. To the south were 1,200 Italians, whose zone included Burj al Barajneh, the largest Palestinian camp in West Beirut. The American zone consisted of the area around Beirut International Airport...
...course, that is precisely what Begin did. Yet the process that had forced his hand also gave proof that the principles of democracy and justice on which Israel was founded had not been buried in the rubble of Sabra and Shatila. As former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gideon Rafael put it: "The people of Israel are not only a stiff-necked but a fundamentally decent people. They will not tolerate a government that has morally, politically and economically bankrupted the country...
...Muslims alike seem to be exhausted by their internecine battles and, viewing the devastation of their country, may once again be willing to understand that they have no choice but to live together. Although most Lebanese believe that elements of the Christian Lebanese Forces were responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacre, Muslims have conspicuously avoided the opportunity to discredit the country's new President...
Still more carnage was to come. On Saturday morning, the militiamen advanced into the heavily populated camp of Sabra, bordering Shatila on the north. Using bullhorns, they announced to terrified residents that they were Israelis, and demanded that the Palestinians assemble in the street. Some heeded the call, while others were forced from their homes at gunpoint. The wailing, screaming throng was in a state of collective hysteria. Said one man who survived the ordeal: "We knew what they had been doing in Shatila. We were sure our time had come." The militiamen fired into the air several times...
...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...