On this day 43 years ago, on September 15, 1982 (July 28, 1982 lunar calendar), the Beirut refugee camp massacre. The horrific scene of Sabra and Shatila In June 1982, Israel launched a large-scale armed invasion of Lebanon, occupied one-third of Lebanon's territory, and besieged Beirut with heavy troops. During this period, more than 1,000 Palestinian refugees were massacred by Israeli invaders and Lebanese Christian militias on September 15. This atrocity aroused public outrage around the world. After the incident, on September 20, the governments of the United States, France and Italy reorganized the multinational force at the request of the Lebanese government, and on October 2 they stationed in Beirut and its suburbs. What happened in Beirut: On September 14, 1982, at 4:10 p.m. in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, an important meeting was being held in the headquarters of the Falangist Party. Suddenly, with a loud "boom", a pre-placed 200-kilogram bomb exploded. Suddenly, the room was filled with smoke and blood, and the moderator of the meeting fell in a pool of blood - the young Lebanese president-elect Bashir Gemayel was killed. The first result of this incident was that Israel used this as an excuse to invade Beirut. This is exactly what Israel dreams of, because it is looking for an opportunity to massacre Palestinians living in Beirut refugee camps. As early as three months ago, it was decided within Israel that extremists from the right-wing Lebanese militia were going to massacre Palestinian civilians, on the pretext that after the Palestine Liberation Organization withdrew from Beirut in August, there were about 2,000 guerrilla fighters left behind, who wanted to "search for the remaining Palestinian guerrillas" in order to "restore and maintain order in Beirut." Now, the death of Beshear Gemayel is a good opportunity to realize this bloody plan. However, the Israelis are afraid of further condemnation by world public opinion, so they themselves try to make a small appearance in the massacre. At 2 am on September 15, Israeli troops quickly moved into West Beirut and surrounded two Palestinian refugee camps, Shatila and Sabra, located in the southwest of Beirut. At this moment, thousands of Palestinian civilians were sleeping soundly, and these kind people did not expect that they were in a dream, and a terrible and bloody massacre was coming to them. On the afternoon of September 15, Lebanese right-wing extremists began military transportation, and trucks drove from East Beirut to the international airport at the southern tip of West Beirut. Around the same time, soldiers from another faction of the Christian Falangists, Major Haddad, who is allied with Israel, also marched towards the airport along the Israeli-controlled road. A command called the "Action Room" was set up inside the airport, and an Israeli liaison officer served as the deputy of the "Action Room". Throughout the afternoon, Israeli forces outside the camp shelled the camp with heavy artillery fire, destroying the southern end of the Shatila refugee camp, the entrance to which the executioners were scheduled to enter. At 5 p.m., a team of about 1,200 people assembled at a golf course near Beirut International Airport. The team followed pre-drawn road signs, one at 50-yard intervals, all the way to a new meeting point in front of the camp: the intersection where the Kuwaiti Embassy is located. At this time, the Israelis deployed most of their troops to the west of the Shatila refugee camp. They placed at least a dozen tanks and armored personnel carriers along Chamond Avenue. They also set up a command post on the roof of a seven-story building of the bombed United Nations agency, where soldiers with binoculars were stationed. Another observation post was set up on a nearby high-rise building. From these two places, the entire refugee camp could be overlooked. Before the operation began, Israeli commanders could be seen consulting with right-wing extremists. Plans were ready for a bloodbath of the refugee camp. Around 6 o'clock, the Israeli army dropped a group of right-wingers into the camp from the south gate, and the massacre began. At this point, Israel began to provide artillery support. As night fell, the Israelis began to fire flares again, and Israeli planes also circled overhead, releasing more flares to illuminate the scene of the massacre. At around 6:30, gunfire replaced the sound of gunfire, indicating that innocent Palestinian civilians were being killed one by one. Around 7:00, a group of Palestinians flocked to the Gaza hospital, which is located between the two refugee camps, seeking refuge. Many screaming Palestinian women ran out of the camps, calling for help for their children and husbands, but Israeli soldiers ignored them. The massacre continued overnight. The two camps became slaughterhouses, and the bodies of thousands of men, women and children were scattered, some in the street, some were killed in their homes. Some men were tied up, chained together and dragged away in trucks. Some youths were genitally mutilated. Some throats were cut off. Some nipples were cut off. Some heads were cut off. Some women clung to their babies and died. A few days later, as the International Committee of the Red Cross cleared the site of the massacre, one body after another was seen being lifted from the rubble, and the faces of the victims suddenly facing death were terrifying and horrifying. Crowds of Palestinians surrounded the piles of corpses and wept bitterly, and there were occasional screams of mourning from the crowd, and people were in agony over the brutal killing of their loved ones. Some survivors later recalled: "It was a hell that night on the 16th. The sky never darkened, the gunshots never stopped, and people kept screaming." On the morning of September 17, news of the massacre had spread everywhere, and the refugee camp was filled with terror. Groups of refugees left Gaza hospitals and fled north, and about 40 patients fled with them. At this point, the massacre seemed to ease for a while, but the murderers' attention shifted to another hospital, the Akka Hospital. Four doctors left the hospital with a white flag, but a grenade was thrown at them, killing three doctors instantly. After a while, a team of executioners arrived at the hospital, where they gang-raped a 19-year-old Palestinian nurse and then killed her. Two other Palestinian doctors were taken out of the hospital, missing. Judging from the traces left on the ground of the refugee camp, some soldiers were leaning against the wall, eating snacks and smoking cigarettes, while killing for fun. Some food boxes were left on the ground. On the afternoon of the 17th, the murderers began to cover up the crime. Around 3 a.m., a bulldozer appeared on the street in Shatila, its shovels piled with corpses. At the entrance to the Shatila refugee camp, 90 bodies were hastily piled up, with gravel and broken bricks between them. Some Palestinian civilians were killed when bulldozers razed their houses. At the same time, several bulldozers rumbled out of the Sabra refugee camp, which was only about 100 meters away from the Israeli command post. A large grave had been dug outside the western wall of the refugee camp, and the bodies were buried in the pit. On the morning of September 18, while covering up the crime, the massacre continued until around 10:30, when a group of Israeli soldiers had just entered the refugee camp, and there were no more people to slaughter. The death toll from the massacre that lasted for a full 40 hours is still unknown. Some say 1,000, some say 1,500, and some say thousands. Map of Beirut