> No military target was found within a half-mile. The hospital was, however, “precariously located near the #PalestinianGhettoes of #Sabra and #Shatila, frequent targets of #IsraeliBombardment,” though the “immediate surroundings are residential” (i.e., not #PalestinianSlums ). --- Financial Times (London), July 9, 1982; Robin Wright, “The horror shelling of a defenceless hospital,” Sunday Times (London), July 4, 1982 (with a picture of dead children and patients wandering in the wreckage). 🧵