Why have the killers of Sabra and Shatila escaped justice?
A Palestinian woman carries a portrait of a loved one who was killed during the Sabra and Shatila massacre during a 2010 commemoration.
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Ellen Siegel during a 2012 commemoration of the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
One of Israel’s most infamous crimes occurred 33 years ago this week.
In September 1982, the Israeli army surrounded the Sabra neighborhood and adjacent Shatila refugee camp in southern Beirut.
Israel gave its allies in a right-wing Christian militia known as the Phalange free rein to massacre a large number of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians living in the area. Israeli troops even shot flares into the night sky to help the Phalangists find their targets.
