Summary
A Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, site of the September 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre and, with Burj al-Barajneh, of cross-factional defensive fronts during the War of the Camps in which PLO and Palestinian National Salvation Front members cooperated despite their formal alliances (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.139, p.145-148).
Details
- After the massacre, residents read the killings as proof they had to organize collectively for protection; activists later said “we learned from the massacre” (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.141, p.146).
- Under total blockade, everything within the camp was treated as common property and distributed among all, regardless of faction (Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, PDF p.147, p.153-154).
Related pages
Beyond the Lines — Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon, Sabra and Shatila massacre, War of the Camps, Ali Abu Tawq