What the records say
- When
- 12 Aug 1976
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 33.89° N, 35.50° E
- Description
- armed siege of a refugee camp in Beirut 1976
Placed at the town its description names, Beirut.
Tel al-Zaatar massacre
1976 Christian militia attack on Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut
The Tel al-Zaatar massacre was the killing of approximately 1,500 Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims in the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon on 12 August 1976. The massacre occurred during the Lebanese Civil War, after the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp had been under siege since January 1976 by Lebanese Christian militias of the Lebanese Front led by the Kataeb Phalangists.
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