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The East Beirut canton, also known as Kfarshima - Madfoun [1] or Marounistan, [2] was a Christian militia controlled territory that existed in Lebanon from 1976 [3] until its gradual erosion following the Taif Agreement and the end of the country's civil war. [4]
This led to more fighting between the rival factions. Tel al-Zaatar camp became a target of both the Phalangists and the NLP Tigers. [11] By 1976, Tel al-Zaatar was the only Palestinian enclave left in the Christian-dominated area of East Beirut. It is one of the oldest and largest camps in the country. [12]
Shatila had previously been one of the PLO's three main training camps for foreign fighters and the main training camp for European fighters. [51] The Israelis maintained that 2,000 to 3,000 terrorists remained in the camps, but were unwilling to risk the lives of more of their soldiers after the Lebanese army repeatedly refused to "clear them ...
This fact was attested in July – August 1976, when the Phalangists, the Army of Free Lebanon and other Lebanese Front militias overrun after a long siege the Muslim-populated slum districts and adjacent Palestinian refugee camps located at East Beirut – Karantina, al-Maslakh and Tel al-Zaatar – the Tyous joined in the respective massacres ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Lebanese Civil War Part of the Cold War, Arab Cold War, Arab–Israeli conflict, Iran–Israel and Iran–Saudi proxy wars Left-to-right from top: Monument at Martyrs' Square in the city of Beirut ; the USS New Jersey firing a salvo off of the Lebanese coast; smoke seen rising from the ruins of the ...
La Quarantine, known in Arabic as Karantina, was a Muslim-inhabited district in mostly Christian East Beirut controlled by forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), [4] and inhabited by Palestinians, Kurds, Syrians, Armenians and Lebanese Sunnis.
Dbayeh camp is a Palestinian refugee camp located next to Dbayeh, 12 kilometers east of the city of Beirut on a hill overlooking the highway connecting Beirut and Tripoli. [1] The camp was established in 1956 with the aim of sheltering Palestinian refugees who came from the Galilee area in northern Palestine, especially from Al-Bassa, and some ...
War of the Camps: May 1985: West Beirut: 3,781 Palestinians: Shi'ite militias, Syrian Armed Forces: Sabra, Shatila and Burj el-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camps were besieged and bombed by the Shi'ite Amal militia, with Syrian Army support. 6,787 injured. Some activity occurred after May 1985 October 13 massacre: October 13, 1990: Beirut: 740 ...