| Damour massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Lebanese Civil War | |
 A destroyed house in Damour (ICRC archives) | |
| Location | Damour, Lebanon |
| Coordinates | 33°44′N 35°27′E / 33.733°N 35.450°E |
| Date | 20 January 1976 |
Attack type | Massacre |
| Deaths | 150–582[1] |
| Perpetrators |  Palestine Liberation Organization |
| Motive | Anti-Christian sentiment, revenge for the Karantina massacre |
The Damour massacre took place on 20 January 1976, during the 1975–1990 Lebanese Civil War. Damour, a Maronite Christian town on the main highway south of Beirut, was attacked by left-wing militants of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and as-Sa'iqa. Many of its people were killed in battle or in the massacre that followed, and others were forced to flee.[2] According to Robert Fisk, the town was the first to be subject to ethnic cleansing in the Lebanese Civil War.[3] The massacre was retaliation for the Karantina massacre by the Phalangists.[4]
- ^ "Lebanon's dispossessed come home: Robert Fisk in Damour on the scars". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
- ^ Armies in Lebanon, 1985, Osprey Publishing
- ^ "Lebanon's dispossessed come home: Robert Fisk in Damour on the scars". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
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