Tel al-Zaatar massacre

Not to be confused with the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.
Tel al-Zaatar massacre
Part of the Lebanese Civil War
The destroyed camp (from the ICRC archives)
LocationTel al-Zaatar camp, Dekwaneh, Beirut
Date4 January – 12 August 1976
TargetPalestine Liberation Organization Palestinian refugees
Attack type
Massacre
Deaths2,000-3,000 Palestinians killed[1]
Perpetrators Lebanese Front

The Tel al-Zaatar[a] massacre was an attack on the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp, a UNRWA-administered camp housing Palestinian refugees in northeastern Beirut. The attack ended on August 12, 1976 with the massacre of 2,000[2][3][4] to 3,000 people.[5] The siege began in January of 1976 with an attack by Christian Lebanese militias led by the Lebanese Front as part of a wider campaign to expel Palestinians, especially those affiliated with the opposing Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from northern Beirut.[6] After five months, the siege turned into a full-scale military assault in June and ended with the massacre in August 1976. [7]

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  2. ^ Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, and Therese Saliba Intersections Syracuse University Press ISBN 0815629516 p. 156
  3. ^ Samir Khalaf, Philip Shukry Khoury (1993) Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-war Reconstruction, Brill, ISBN 9004099115 p. 253
  4. ^ Younis, Mona (2000) Liberation and Democratization: The South African and Palestinian National Movements University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0816633002 p. 221
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  6. ^ United States Army Human Engineering Laboratory (June 1979). Military Operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas, 1975–1978 (PDF). Technical Memorandum 11–79 (Report). Archived (PDF) from the original on February 1, 2014.
  7. ^ Khoury, Elias (2012). "Rethinking The Nakba". Critical Inquiry. 38 (2): 250–266. doi:10.1086/662741. S2CID 162316338.


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