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Israeli newspapers reported last week that the Israeli military knew as early as 11 p.m. Thursday that a massacre was taking place and did nothing to stop it. Hirsh Goodman, the defense correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, wrote that the Phalange commander in the Shatila camp informed the I.D.F. commander in Beirut at that hour that "until now 300 civilians and terrorists have been killed...
...Israelis had set up observation posts atop several seven-story buildings at the Kuwaiti-embassy traffic circle, not far from the Shatila camp. Last week TIME'S Suro visited the roof of one of these buildings where Israeli troops had been seen. He found discarded food cans, Israeli newspapers and an unobstructed and panoramic view of the area in the Shatila camp where most of the killings had taken place...
...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...
...fight back with 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...