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Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1300 and 3500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias—in the city of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. It was perpetrated by the Lebanese Forces, one of the main Christian militias in Lebanon, and supported by IOF that had surrounded Beirut's Sabra neighbourhood and the Shatila refugee camp.
The Lebanese Phalanges Party is a far-right Lebanese party inspired by the European fascist and fascist-style youth movements.
The party, alongside its allies, committed horrific tragedies against humanity. I'm a Lebanese Marxist-Lenninist with a strong understanding of my country's history , so I will try to explain them.
They committed the Black Saturday massacre of 1975, fueling the Lebanese sectarian divide during and after the civil war in Lebanon by dozens to hundreds in response to the assassination of party leader and founder Pierre Gemayel.
They committed the Karantina massacre of January 1976, attacking the Karantine district of East Beirut and specifically killed Palestinians and Muslims. Estimates vary from hundreds to several-hundred killed.
Following the Karantine massacre, on January 1976, they massacred civilians in the coastal town of Damour, killing an estimated 500-1000 and displacing many, known as the Damour massacre.
In Augast of the same year, they seized the Tel al-Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp, tragically murdering thousands.
In June 1978, Tony Frangieh (former president's son) was killed alongside many of his family.
Finally, there is the well-known Sabra and Shatila massacre of 16–18 September 1982, which doesn't need an introduction. Another thing to note: the revolutionary Marxists of Lebanon, including Goerge Ibrahim Abdallah (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=aqJhFmjCs8k), were of the defenders of Sabra and Shatila. Foreign imperialist "peace-makers", including France and The United States claimed they will defend the camps, but we all know how that turned out. Like how the UN withdraw from Rwanda following Belgian imperialist commands, they allowed crimes against humanity to happen and did nothing to try to stop it.
While many stop there, that is not the end of it. Many more horrors were committed against Palestinians refugees.
After the civil war, "temporary" sectarian divisions were placed for "peace". The sectarian divisions still remain, the government is as corrupt as a government can be, and Lebanon is in ruins. Instead of solving injustices, the government is now concerned with disarming the party that has defended Lebanon from invasion since 1982.
I can totally see the Phalangists being used by Israel again in the future, with the way things are going.