Comments: 30 Little Known Facts About Israel

[Anonymous]

have u knowen that it wasnt israelys that did the massacre in sabra and shatila? or u forgot that?

[Mansoor Ali]

On 15th September 1982, the Israeli army occupied West Beirut, &quot;encircling and sealing&quot; the camps of Sabra and Shatila, which were inhabited by Lebanese and Palestinian civilians. By mid-day on 15 September 1982, the refugee camps were entirely surrounded by Israeli tanks and soldiers, who installed checkpoints at strategic locations and crossroads around the camps in order to monitor the entry or exit of any person. During the late afternoon and evening of that day, the camps were shelled.</p>

Around mid-day on Thursday 16 September 1982, a unit of approximately 150 Israeli-allied Phalangists entered the first camp. For the next 40 hours members of the Phalangist militia raped, killed, and injured a large number of unarmed civilians, mostly children, women and elderly people inside the encircled and sealed camps. </p>

Eye witness account:</p>

<font color="#00008b" size="1"> <font size="2">I was at Sabra and the roads were empty. Some young men called me over and asked if I knew. I said no. They said that the Israelis had entered with the Phalangists and that they were destroying things. On Saturday we went back to see my relatives. What can I say: people were on their backs, black. I found my brother-in-law dead, he had been hit on the head with an axe; we found thirty other members of the family dead. </font></font></p>

<font color="#00008b" size="1"><font size="2">--- Muhammad Raad</font></font></p>

Another Eye witness account:</p>

<font color="#00008b" size="2">The Israelis and the Phalangists came back a short while later with a loudspeaker, through which they asked us to give ourselves up, promising that our lives would be spared if we came out of the shelter.*******They dragged us all along; women, children and men; my father tried to escape and they killed him in front of my mother and my little sister. They made us all walk; our injured neighbour was with us, carrying her intestines and haemorrhaging. She and I escaped into the Shatila camp, and from there we sought refuge in the Gaza hospital. When they arrived near the Gaza hospital, we ran away once again.

When the massacre was over, we went back and saw the corpses of the dead, including that of our neighbours’ son Samir, who had been murdered. And under the corpses, they had placed bombs as booby-traps. </font></p>

<font color="#00008b"><font size="2">--- <font color="#000000">Jamila Khalifa</font></font></font></p>