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	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Sabra and Shatila 20 years on
		On 16 September 1982, under the watchful eye of their Israeli allies who had encircled the area, Lebanese Christian militiamen entered Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps bent on revenge for the assassination of their leader Bashir Gemayel.
		But there will be no internationally-observed minute's silence for the innocent victims of Sabra and Shatila, or global news coverage about the survivors and their miserable existence at the scene of this evil crime.
		Justice for the Victims of Sabra and Shatila
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2255902.stm (870 words)

	Sabra and Shatila massacres—why do we ignore them? - Global Issues
		The massacres at Sabra and Shatila provide an interesting comparison to the September 11th tragedy.
		However, while Sepember 11th is remembered in the west, Sabra and Shatila are largely ignored.
		In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and killed between 2000 and 3500 innocent civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
	www.globalissues.org /Geopolitics/MiddleEast/TerrorInUSA/faq/Sabra.asp (1112 words)

	Al-Awda - PRRC Advisory: Sabra and Shatila Calls for Justice Endure
		September 16, 2004 marks the 22nd anniversary of the killing of thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese residents of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut Lebanon.
		According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, more than 2,750 Palestinian men, women and children were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut while the city was occupied by the Israeli army.
		Sabra and Shatila will continue to haunt Palestinians and the international community alike until the perpetrators of the massacres are brought to justice, until the forced and continuing exile of millions of Palestinians is ended, and until Palestinian refugees achieve their right to return to
	al-awda.org /alert-sabra_shatila.html (634 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sabra and Shatila massacre (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Sabra and Shatila massacre (or Sabra and Chatila massacre) was carried out in September 1982 by Lebanese Maronite Christian militias in then-Israeli-occupied Beirut, Lebanon, when Palestinian refugees were killed in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
		Sabra is the name of a poor neighborhood in the southern outskirts of West Beirut, which is adjacent to the Shatila UNRWA refugee camp set up for Palestinian refugees in 1949.
		The massacre of Sabra and Shatila Camps - 16.09.1982.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sabra-and-Shatila-massacre (6611 words)

	The Israeli Slaughter at Sabra and Shatila : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Sabra and Shatila massacre is still worth talking about since the current crimes are only a continuation of the past.
		The Sabra and Shatila massacre was part of this stated goal of ethnic cleansing.
		As such the people of Sabra and Shatila facing the Zionist slaughter of innocents, were to meet the same fate as the Palestinian towns of Dueima, Kibya, Kfar Qasim, and Deir Yassin from 1947 to 1950.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1708058 (2433 words)

	ipedia.com: Sabra and Shatila Massacre Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Sabra and Shatila massacre (or Sabra and Chatila massacre) was carried out in September 1982 by the Lebanese Christian militias, in Israeli-occupied Beirut, Lebanon.
		Israeli intelligence claimed that the Sabra and Shatila camps for Palestinian refugees in Beirut still contained up to 2,000 PLO members (who allegedly had not been evacuated, in spite of the terms of the earlier agreement whereby the PLO was to leave Lebanon) and some weapons, a claim that has been disputed (more below).
		Following Sharon's 2001 election to the post of Prime Minister of Israel, a lawsuit was filed in Belgium regarding his alleged role in causing in the Sabra and Shatila massacres.
	www.ipedia.com /sabra_and_shatila_massacre.html (1682 words)

	Progress in Sabra Shatila case (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Communiqué of the lawyers of the Sabra and Shatila victims in the wake of the hearing in Brussels, 15 May 2002.
		Samiha Hijazi, one of the 28 original plaintiffs for whom we lodged the complaint on 18 June 2001, came from Sabra and Shatila to attend the hearing in Brussels.
		We are confident that the decision of the court, announced for 26 June 2002, will finally open the road to justice to the victims of one of the greatest unpunished crimes of the 20th century.
	www.labournet.net /other/0205/sabra1.html (410 words)

	After Nineteen Years: Sabra and Shatila Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I was assigned to the Gaza Hospital, a Red Crescent facility, in the Sabra refugee camp in West Beirut.
		In Brussels, a prosecutor determined that "the Complaint Against Ariel Sharon for His Involvement in the Massacres at Sabra and Shatila" was admissible.
		The complaint concludes, "The actions committed at Sabra and Shatila together constitute a crime of genocide, a crime against humanity, war crimes and grave violations of the 1949 IV Geneva Conventions." In September 2001, the investigation of the complaint was suspended.
	www.mepc.org /public_asp/journal_vol8/0112_siegel.asp (7726 words)

	ei: The Sabra and Shatila Massacre (16-18 September 1982)
		From the roof of this six-story building, it was possible to observe the town and the camps of Sabra and Shatila clearly.
		By midday, the camps of Sabra and Shatila -- in reality a single zone of refugee camps in the south of West Beirut -- were surrounded by Israeli tanks and soldiers, who had installed checkpoints all around the camps in order to monitor the entry or exit of any person.
		In 1984, Israeli journalists Schiff and Ya'ari concluded their chapter on the massacre with this sobering reflection: "If there is a moral to the painful episode of Sabra and Shatila, it has yet to be acknowledged."[15] The reality of this impunity remains true to this day.
	www.electronicintifada.net /bytopic/145.shtml (1776 words)

	Sabra and Shatila Refugee Camps 1982 Massacre
		Their mission was authorized by the Israeli IDF, under the command of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, that held the territory around Beruit at that point in time as a result of the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
		Elie Hobeika, the Phalangist leader directly responsible for carrying out the massacres (and other gruesome acts over the years) became a crucial ally of Syrian subjugation of Lebanon, and had a long career until he was killed in a massive bomb attack at his house in a Beirut suburb in January 2002.
		On the question of a failure to act to prevent a war crime, the International Committee of the Red Cross' interpretation of the Geneva Convention suggests no legal responsibility is incurred by those who do not intervene to prevent or to put an end to a breach of the convention.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1967to1991_sabra_shatila.php (1091 words)

	Indict Ariel Sharon - Justice for the Victims of Sabra & Shatila - Latest News
		Statement of the Lawyers for the Suvivors of Sabra and Shatila in reaction to the Belgian Justice Ministry's decision to start the procedure of transferring the case to Israel (15 June 2003)
		Press release: Lawyers representing the victims in the Sabra and Shatila case welcome the Belgian Supreme Court's decision to quash Court of Appeals' ruling in precedent-setting Yerodia case, 25 November 2002.
		Court Diary: Statement by the lawyers of the victims of Sabra and Shatila on the decision of the Court of Appeals in Brussels, 26 June 2002
	www.indictsharon.net /latest.shtml (1545 words)

	Excite UK - Regional - Middle East - Lebanon - Society and Culture - History - War with Israel - Sabra and Shatila
		A collection of criticisms of BBC''s special ''The Accused'', covering the massacres at Sabra and Shatila and accusations that Sharon is guilty of war crimes.
		Suggesting that hundreds of survivors were being held by Phlangists, even as reporters were covering the carnage in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, and that they were subseqeuntly ''disappeared''.
		Documentary on Ariel Sharon''s role in the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
	www.excite.co.uk /directory/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Society_and_Culture/History/War_with_Israel/Sabra_and_Shatila (512 words)

	Why Sharon is a War Criminal (by Dr. Ben Alofs) - Media Monitors Network
		But most important was that from the start of the occupation of West-Beirut, the Israeli Army, being an occupation force under the Fourth Geneva Convention and Protocol 1, became responsible for the security of the civilian population under its control.
		On Sunday September 19th I went back to Sabra and Shatila together with two Danish and a Dutch journalist.
		Intissar was an attractive 19-year old Palestinian nurse, with whom I was working in Akka hospital in Shatila in the night of September 14th to 15th.
	www.mediamonitors.net /drbenalofs1.html (1960 words)

	Sabra-Shatila (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The compaint was brought to court in June 2001 by surviving victims of the slaughter in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra en Shatila, in Lebanon, in 1982.
		In February 2003, the Belgian Court of Cassation ruled that the complaint is inadmissable for Ariel Sharon, who in 1982 was the responsable minister of defence, as long as he serves as the head of government of Israel.
		Therefore, he is political responsible for what happened to the people in the camps of Sabra and Shatila.
	www.sabra-shatila.be /english (423 words)

	Elie Hobeika killer file (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kill tally: Approximately 1,700 Palestinians killed at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982.
		The Sabra and Shatila camps are surrounded and sealed.
		BBC documentary on the Sabra and Shatila massacres, Hobeika looses his seat in elections held in August.
	www.moreorless.au.com /killers/hobeika.html (5370 words)

	Israel: Sharon Investigation Urged (Human Rights Watch, 23-6-2001)
		There is abundant evidence that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed on a wide scale in the Sabra and Shatilla massacre, but to date, not a single individual has been brought to justice.
		Details of the massacre: The massacre at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps occurred between September 16 and 18, 1982, after Israel Defense Forces (“IDF”) then occupying Beirut and under Ariel Sharon´s overall command as Israeli Defense Minister permitted members of the Phalange militia into the camps.
		Israeli military intelligence estimated that between 700 and 800 people were killed in Sabra and Shatilla during the sixty-two-hour rampage, while Palestinian and other sources have claimed that the dead numbered up to several thousand.
	www.hrw.org /press/2001/06/isr0622.htm (1264 words)

	The Peace Encyclopedia: Sabra and Shatila
		Sabra & Shatila are Arab "refugee camps" located in Lebanon.
		It had been estimated that there may have been up to 200 armed men in the camps working out of the countless bunkers built by the PLO over the years, and stocked with generous reserves of ammunition.
		By contrast, few voices were raised in May 1985, when Muslim militiamen attacked the Shatila and Burj-el Barajneh Palestinian refugee camps.
	www.yahoodi.com /peace/shatila.html (596 words)

	sabra lebanon 1982 and other lebanon related information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lebanon 1982 Lebanon 1982-1985 PLO in Tunisia Sabra and Shatila UN Palestine Conference PLO Cairo Declaration Lebanon...
		2001 by surviving victims of the slaughter in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra en Shatila, in Lebanon, in 1982.
		Sabra et Chatila: Enquete sur un massacre, Seuil, Paris, 1982.
	www.nethorde.com /lebanon/sabra-lebanon-1982.html (333 words)

	The horror of Sabra and Shatila
		But above all else, Sharon was known for his role in the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps--committed 20 years ago this week--during Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
		THE GREAT myth about the Sabra and Shatila massacre is that Ariel Sharon acted alone.
		ARIEL SHARON may be responsible for the massacre at Sabra and Shatila.
	www.socialistworker.org /2002-2/422/422_06_SabraShatila.shtml (2377 words)

	Special Report
		Memories of his childhood growing up in Shatila camp are now overtaken by images of the horror he witnessed as a young boy.
		Ferrawi described the Sabra and Shatila massacre as a “Zionist effort to rid the country of ‘unwanted elements,’” adding that the Palestinians’ legal status in Lebanon today still marks them as ‘unwanted,’ although this is never said publicly.
		Samir Khalil, a father of four in Shatila camp, is still angry that his 12-year-old daughter, who suffered first-degree burns during the “war of the camps” against Amal militiamen, was denied hospitalization by UNRWA.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/0998/9809027.html (2061 words)

	Lawrence of Cyberia: Tainted By Terror
		Lebanese leftist militias and PLO fighters from the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps resist the siege from Muslim West Beirut.
		When news of Sabra and Shatila breaks, Knesset Member Amnon Rubenstein [Shinui] reports that, during a visit by Israeli parliamentarians to Israeli-occupied south Lebanon, he met members of the Phalangist Party who openly expressed their intention to massacre the Palestinians.
		During the afternoon, a crowd of 500 refugees sheltering in the Gaza Hospital in Sabra hear that the Phalangists are attacking the hospitals.
	lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com /news/2004/09/tainted_by_terr.html (9244 words)

	MIFTAH--Sabra and Shatila
		Lebanese Phalangist militia, in collaboration with the Israeli army, stormed the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in southern Beirut, butchering approximately three thousand unarmed Palestinian refugees, men, women and children.
		The IDF did not enter Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, but surrounded and sealed them off with troops and tanks.
		The massacres at Sabra and Shatila, gruesome as they were, are just two in a long list of ruthless massacres perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people, including Tantura, Deir Yassin, Qana, Hebron to name but a few.
	www.miftah.org /Display.cfm?DocId=299&CategoryId=3 (460 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sabra and Shatila are two refugee camps in Beirut the Palestinians resorted to after being forced to flee their villages and towns in 1948.
		On the night of September 14, 1982, the Israeli forces besieged Sabra and Shatila camps, controlled their entrances and exits.
		Twenty-three Palestinians filed a suit against Sharon to have him tried in Belgium for his role in the September 1982 massacres of up to 2,000 Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, perpetrated by Israel with the help of the Israeli-allied Christian phalangist militia during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2002-09/15/article75.shtml (1114 words)

	ZenJustice.com: Sabra and Shatila
		What follows is a translation of 9 interviews conducted with survivors from the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
		As all historic events, the Sabra and Shatila Massacre was not an isolated event.
		This book has been compiled at a time when three enquiries into the origins, purposes and motivations of the 1982 invasion and the Sabra and Shatila massacre are summoning their various witnesses and gathering evidence.
	www.themaz.net /ss/sabra_shatila.html (786 words)

	MER - Sabra and Shatila Massacres 1982
		Only later would the world know that the source of those bombs was the Israeli invaders, who illuminated the sky over the camps so that the vultures of the Phalangists, some of whom were high on drugs, could see their way around in the camps.
		It was during the early hours of the morning that the Voice of Arab Lebanon began broadcasting eyewitness accounts of the massacre.
		Reports were reaching it from various sources that a massacre had taken place in Sabra and Shatila, reports confirmed by other stations.
	www.middleeast.org /launch/redirect.cgi?a=46&num=240 (1514 words)

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