U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a top-secret…

1982 CE

U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a top-secret finding in 1982 authorizing ten million dollars in covert aid to Bachir Gamayel's Lebanese Christian militia.

Gamayel, President-Elect of Lebanon, is assassinated shortly thereafter.

Within two days, Israeli forces allow Phalangist units to enter Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut on a mission of revenge.

At two of these camps, Sabra and Shatilla, Israeli intelligence will calculate that there were seven hundred to eight hundred Palestinian victims, many of them women and children.

All had been massacred.

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Bachir Gemayel View → Ronald Reagan View →

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Christians, Maronite View → Lebanon, Republic of View → Israel View → Palestinians View →

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Lebanese Civil War View → Israeli Invasion of Lebanon View → Lebanon War of 1982 View →

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Mayhem View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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