On September 16, 1982, Christian Lebanese militiamen allied to Israel
entered the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila and the adjacent
neighborhood of Sabra in Beirut under the watch of the Israeli army and
began a slaughter that caused outrage around the world. Over the next
day and a half, up to 3500 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, mostly
women, children, and the elderly, were murdered in one of the worst
atrocities in modern Middle Eastern history.
