Declassified documents published by the New York Times in 2012 reveal »that the Israelis misled American diplomats about events in Beirut and bullied them into accepting the spurious claim that thousands of “terrorists” were in the camps. Most troubling, when the United States was in a position to exert strong diplomatic pressure on Israel that could have ended the atrocities, it failed to do so.«

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/a-preventable-massacre.html

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»The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1,300 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias—in the city of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. It was perpetrated by the Lebanese Forces, one of the main Christian militias in Lebanon, and supported by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that had surrounded Beirut's Sabra neighbourhood and the adjacent Shatila refugee camp.«

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre

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De vraag is of goed nabuurschap, dat de veiligheid van Israëlische en Libanese burgers garandeert, met geweld kan worden afgedwongen. Het wrede déjà vu van eerdere Israëlische invallen stemt niet optimistisch, aldus Jan Keulen, oud-correspondent voor de NRC in Beiroet, Cairo en Amman.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/04/israel-in-libanon-de-overweldigende-echos-van-1982-a4868167

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