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== Early life ==

== Early life ==

Brigitte Gabriel was born in the [[Marjeyoun District]] of [[Lebanon]] to a Maronite Christian couple, their only child.  Gabriel lived with her  family through the Lebanese civil war.  She worked as a news anchor in Lebanon and Israel before immigrating to the United States. She recalls that during the Lebanese Civil War, Islamic militants launched an assault on a Lebanese military base near her family's house and destroyed her home.  Gabriel,  ten years old at the time, was injured by shrapnel in the attack. For the next seven years, she and her parents were forced to live underground in all that remained, an 8 x 10 ft. bomb shelter, with no sanitary systems, electricity or running water, only a small kerosene lantern and little food.  She says that to evade Muslim snipers, she had to crawl in a roadside ditch to a spring for water.  

Brigitte Gabriel was born in the [[Marjeyoun District]] of [[Lebanon]] to a Maronite Christian couple, their only child.  Gabriel lived with her  family through the Lebanese civil war.  She worked as a news anchor in Lebanon and Israel before immigrating to the United States. She recalls that during the Lebanese Civil War, Islamic militants launched an assault on a Lebanese military base near her family's house and destroyed her home.  Gabriel,  ten years old at the time, was injured by shrapnel in the attack. For the next seven years, she and her parents were forced to live underground in all that remained, an 8 x 10 ft. bomb shelter, with no sanitary systems, electricity or running water, only a small kerosene lantern and little food.  She says that to evade Muslim snipers, she had to crawl in a roadside ditch to a spring for water.  

According to Gabriel, at one point in the spring of 1978, a bomb explosion caused her and her parents to become trapped in the shelter for two days.  They were eventually rescued by three Christian militia fighters, one of whom befriended Gabriel but was later killed by a land mine.

According to Gabriel, at one point in the spring of 1978, a bomb explosion caused her and her parents to become trapped in the shelter for two days.  They were eventually rescued by three Christian militia fighters, one of whom befriended Gabriel but was later killed by a land mine.

Gabriel wrote that in 1978 a stranger warned her family of an upcoming attack by the Islamic militias on all Christians.  Her life was saved when the Israeli army invaded Lebanon.  Later, when her mother was seriously injured and taken to an Israeli hospital, Gabriel was surprised by the humanity shown by the Israelis, in contrast to the constant propaganda against the Jews she had seen as a child

Gabriel wrote that in 1978 a stranger warned her family of an upcoming attack by the Islamic militias on all Christians.  Her life was saved when the Israeli army invaded Lebanon.  Later, when her mother was seriously injured and taken to an Israeli hospital, Gabriel was surprised by the humanity shown by the Israelis, in contrast to the constant propaganda against the Jews she had seen as a child

Brigitte Gabriel, Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America (New York, St. Martin's Press, 2006).

Brigitte Gabriel, Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America (New York, St. Martin's Press, 2006).

Brigitte Gabriel, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It (New York:St. Martin's,2008.

Brigitte Gabriel, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It (New York:St. Martin's,2008).

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