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The Lebanese Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 150,000 fatalities [ 5 ] and led to the exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon .
The Damour massacre took place on 20 January 1976, during the 1975–1990 Lebanese Civil War. Damour, a Maronite Christian town on the main highway south of Beirut, was attacked by left-wing militants of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and as-Sa'iqa.
At the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, the country was home to a large Palestinian population divided along political lines. [8] Tel al-Zaatar was a refugee camp of about 3,000 structures, which housed 20,000 refugees in early 1976, and was populated primarily by supporters of the As-Sa'iqa faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). [8]
Part of the Lebanese Civil War Palestinian refugees Zuhaiba Alshaheen, Mohammed Amcha and grandchildren Ahmad Jawhar and Ahmad Kinj, with Zuhaiba seen confronting a militant, in Karantina , 1976 (photo taken by Françoise Demulder ) [ 1 ]
Following the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, the Lebanese Army disintegrated, and military barracks fell in many areas. This period also saw the rise of Lieutenant Ahmed Al-Khatib, who declared the formation of the Lebanese Arab Army [1] after rebelling against the leadership on January 21, 1976.
Operation Fluid Drive was a non-combatant evacuation operation led by the United States to evacuate American citizens and other foreign nationals from Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War. [1] On 20 June 1976, USS Spiegel Grove transported 110 Americans and 157 nationals of other countries from Lebanon to Piraeus, Greece. [2]
Ba'athist Syria launched a military intervention in the Lebanese Civil War in 1976, one year after the breakout of the war, as Syrian Arab Armed Forces began supporting Maronite militias against the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and leftist militias.
It is estimated that more than 300 civilians were murdered in what was the first ethnic cleansing of the Lebanese Civil War. Karantina massacre: January 18, 1976: Beirut: 300–1,500 Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims: Kataeb Regulatory Forces: Karantina was an impoverished predominantly Muslim district — housing Lebanese and Palestine ...