The Sabra and Shatila massacre continues to highlight the plight of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon today, who now number 479,000, according to the United Nations.

On 16 September 1982, fighters belonging to the Kataeb party’s Lebanese Forces militia entered the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut’s southern suburbs. They were ...

However, Sabra is also the name of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, which still exists today. In 1982, Sabra and Shatila, a neighboring camp, were the site of a horrific massacre.

Sabra and Shatila: Jewish nurse recounts horrors of Palestinian massacres Forty years after the massacre, Ellen Seigel discusses treating the wounded, Israeli complicity and US indifference ...

Then they had watched the murderers in the camps, they had given them military assistance - the Israeli airforce had dropped all those flares to help the men who were murdering the inhabitants of Sabr ...

While the name Sabra is intended to refer to the word's other meaning, it also brings up memories of the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982, where many Palestinians were killed.

It has been 42 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, Lebanon, where right-wing Christian Phalangist militias under the protection of the Israeli army killed more than 3,000 ...

The Sabra-Shatila massacre in Lebanon is being remembered. Its 40 years since the massacre of Palestinians took place in the two adjacent camps of Lebanon at the hand of Phalangist militiamen.

I am writing to thank letter-writer Kenneth Baitsholts for reminding us all of the slaughter in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982. I remember waking to the news back then and thinking I ...

In contrast to the numbing effects of news reports, Kelly and Keane choose a human-scale approach to show life in the impoverished neighborhoods of Sabra and Shatila.