All this reminded me of something from way back when I was kind of aware but ignoring it all, because that's what they seem to do there. However reading about it sort of rings a bell......as to today. Deja vu if you like. Strategy is unchanged though so it must be working.
en.wikipedia.org
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.
[2]
In June 1982, Israel
invaded Lebanon with the intention of rooting out the
PLO. By 30 August 1982, under the supervision of the
Multinational Force, the PLO withdrew from Lebanon following weeks of battles in West Beirut and shortly before the massacre took place. Various forces—Israeli, Lebanese Forces and possibly also the
South Lebanon Army (SLA)—were in the vicinity of Sabra and Shatila at the time of the slaughter, taking advantage of the fact that the Multinational Force had removed barracks and mines that had encircled Beirut's predominantly Muslim neighborhoods and kept the Israelis at bay during the
siege of Beirut.
[3] The Israeli advance over West Beirut in the wake of the PLO withdrawal, which enabled the Lebanese Forces raid, was in violation of the ceasefire agreement between the various forces.
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