1975 Beirut bus massacre

Beirut bus massacre
Part of the Lebanese Civil War
Image of the scene after the attack
LocationBeirut, Lebanon
Date13 April 1975
Target Palestine Liberation Organization
Deaths27
Injured19
Perpetrator Kataeb Party
MotiveRevenge for the Assassination Attempt on Pierre Gemayel

The 1975 Beirut bus massacre (Arabic: مجزرة بوسطة عين الرمانة ,مجزرة عين الرمانة), also known as the Ain el-Rammaneh incident and the Black Sunday, was the collective name given to a short series of armed clashes involving Phalangist and Palestinian elements in the streets of central Beirut, which is commonly presented as the spark that set off the Lebanese Civil War in the mid-1970s.[1]

  1. ^ Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas (1979), Appendix B, B-2.