In June 1982, the IDF Lebanon with the intention of rooting out the PLO | In his book published soon after the massacre, the Israeli journalist of , arrived at about 2,000 bodies disposed of after the massacre from official and Red Cross sources and "very roughly" estimated 1,000 to 1,500 other victims disposed of by the Phalangists themselves to a total of 3,000—3,500 |
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Then on 14 September, Gemayel was assassinated in a massive explosion which demolished his headquarters | Shultz recounted in his memoirs that "The brutal fact is that we are partially responsible |
By 30 August 1982, under the supervision of the , the PLO withdrew from Lebanon following weeks of battles in West Beirut and shortly before the massacre took place.
19Postwar testimonies by Phalange operatives Lokhman Slim and Monika Borgman's Massaker, based on 90 hours of interviews with the LF soldiers who participated in the massacre, gives the participants' memories of how they were drawn into the militia, trained with the Israeli army and unleashed on the camps to take revenge for the murder of Bashir Gemayel | Fawwaz Traboulsi writes that while the massacre was presented as a reaction to the assassination of Bachir, it represented the posthumous achievement of his "radical solution" to Palestinians in Lebanon, who he thought of as "people too many" in the region |
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Its purpose is to destroy the Palestinians as a nation.
5Sune Haugbolle, Cambridge University Press, 2010 pp | We took the Israelis and Lebanese at their word" |
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" The press release that followed reads: In the wake of the assassination of the President-elect Bashir Jemayel, the I | Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol |
According to a Dutch nurse, the camp was as bright as "a sports stadium during a football game".
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