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...week, Red Cross officials listed 320 confirmed dead thus far in the adjoining refugee camps called Sabra and Shatila. Hundreds of others are listed as missing, and the toll is estimated to be at least 800, if it is ever known precisely. Many of the victims, who also included Lebanese residents of the camps, lay buried in a hastily bulldozed site that was dug by the killers near the Shatila entrance as they finished up their murderous spree. Rescue workers decided against reopening the grave. Other victims presumably still remain in houses that were dynamited in a crude attempt...
...world discovered the enormity of the Shatila-Sabra massacre, details of what actually took place slowly began to emerge from the confused accounts of survivors and other witnesses to the tragedy. But one fact that was starkly clear was that the residents of Shatila and Sabra were in no way prepared for the bloody attack that began only 24 hours after the Israeli army moved into West Beirut. No serious resistance to the Israeli advance was being planned in the camps: the number of armed Palestinians in the area was small. Said one resident: "We lived through a long...
...past, Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora have shared a natural tendency to rally round the flag in times of crisis. With few exceptions, this has been necessary because controversy makes Israel easy prey for anti-Semites and anti-Zionists. But now, in the aftermath of Shatila and Sabra, Jews are refusing to rubber stamp Israel's policies. Doubt that was once kept inside is now expressed openly...
When newsmen tried to enter the Sabra camp late Friday afternoon, they were stopped at the checkpoint by Israeli soldiers, who told them that fighting was still going on inside the camp. Reported Suro: "We could hear the burst of automatic weapons fire and the explosion of grenades. It was clearly not a firefight because the volleys of gunfire were not being returned: the guns were being fired in only one direction." Israeli soldiers rested at the edge of the camp even as the firing continued. They did not appear concerned about snipers or any kind of attack from inside...
...event that precipitated the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps had occurred scarcely 72 hours earlier. At exactly 4:08 last Tuesday afternoon, an explosion in the heart of East Beirut shook buildings for blocks around. An instant later, a huge cloud of dust and smoke began to rise above a three-story structure whose ganglia lay exposed and bare. In the street outside, a Christian Phalangist member of the Lebanese parliament raised his hand to his mouth and cried "Ya Allah![My God!] That's the Kata...