Remembering Sabra and Shatila in the 43rd year.

September 16, 1982, marks the day Lebanese militias armed and controlled by zionist occupation forces stormed into the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut and brutally killed up to 3,500 civilians within three days. The tragedy is still remembered as one of the most horrific crimes committed by zionist colony.

#OnThisDay in 1982, the Lebanese Phalangist militia, backed by zionist colony, perpetrated a massacre in the southern Beirut neighborhood of Sabra and Palestinian refugee camp Shatila that lasted 3 days (16 – 18 September) and claimed the lives of thousands of Palestinian refugees and Lebanese citizens.

On December 16th, 1982, the UN General Assembly declared the massacre “an act of genocide.”

The Cradle Media

Two days after the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, the Phalanges, under the watchful eyes of the IOF who besieged and protected the area, invaded the camp of refugees. For an unrelenting 48 hours, the bloodshed did not stop. The children and elderly were mercilessly murdered, women were raped, and pregnant mothers had their bellies poked. Eyewitnesses consider it the most heinous massacre in human history.

Thrown into mass graves in an attempt to bury the crime, the exact number of martyrs is unknown. Reports estimate between 3,000 and 5,000 Palestinian and Lebanese martyrs—most of them Palestinian refugees. To this day, hundreds are still missing, families still torn apart. Our people are not strangers to such horrors. From the Nakba to Deir Yassin and Tal Al-Zaatar, extending to the massacres in Jenin, Nablus, and Gaza—our history is steeped in the blood of the martyrs.

RNN