Article: Sabra & Shatila.(book)(Book Review)

September 1982

By Bayan Nuwayhed Al Hour published by Pluto Press ISBN 0 7453 2302 2 price 25.00 [pounds sterling] paperback

For 40 continuous hours between Thursday 16 September and midday on Saturday 18 September 1982, the massacre of Sabra and Shatila took place in the Lebanese capital of Beirut--one of the most barbaric of the 20th century.

Masterminded by the then Israeli Minister of Defence Ariel Sharon and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Rafael Eitan, it was committed against Palestinian refugees and other residents by Lebanese militias, aided and supervised by the Israeli Army, which had encircled the district after Palestinian and ...

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