Summary
The Lebanese party recruiting heavily from the marginalized Shi’i population of the South, the Bekaa Valley and the Beirut slum districts, which Fateh’s Force 17 helped to train in the 1970s and which in 1985-1988 led the War of the Camps against the Palestinian camps (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.34, p.63).
Details
- Fatah’s Force 17 helped train members of Amal when Amal recruited from marginalized Lebanese Shi’a in the south, the Bekaa and the districts surrounding Beirut (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.63).
- From 1985 to 1988 Amal, working with the Lebanese Armed Forces’ 6th Brigade and the Syrian government, tried to expel all members of the PLO and Fatah from camps in Beirut, Saida and Sur (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.34).
- Present-day reconciliation with Amal is named in the book as one of the factional narratives against which former underground members measured what they would tell a researcher (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.46).
Related pages
Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, War of the Camps, Fateh