Word: shatila
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...from Beirut and isolating such Palestinian strongholds as Nabatiyeh, Tyre and Hasbaya. Then on Friday morning, in their fifth strike within seven days, the Israelis launched their assault on Beirut, hitting not only at Palestinian and Syrian positions near Beirut airport and the Kuwaiti embassy but also at the Shatila refugee camp. On Saturday, as Israeli planes made still another raid on southern Lebanon, Palestinian guerrillas lobbed a few more Katyusha rockets at northern Israel. The Palestinian action was noteworthy less for its scope than for the fact that it occurred so soon after the Israelis had knocked...