Around mid-day on Thursday 16 September 1982, a unit of approximately 150 Israeli-allied Phalangists entered the first camp. For the next 40 hours members of the Phalangist militia raped, killed, and injured a large number of unarmed civilians, mostly children, women and elderly people inside the encircled and sealed camps. The estimate of victims varies between 700 (the official Israeli figure) to 3,500. The victims and survivors of the massacres have never been deemed entitled to a formal investigation of the tragedy, since Israel's Kahan Commission did not have a judicial mandate and was not backed up by legal force.

Please read:

“Summary of Events, 4 and 5 June 1982”:
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ib90

and

“Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the events at the refugee camps in Beirut, 8 February 1983”: http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ign0

both from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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