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Fatalities: some estimate: 684 civilians deaths.<ref name=burke>Robert A. Burke, "Counter-Terrorism for Emergency Responders," (2017), [https://books.google.com/books?id=eDwPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA285 p. 285]. ''The PLO and Lebanese National Movement attacked the Christian town of Damour, killing 684 civilians and forcing the remainder of the town's population to flee.''</ref> Others estimate: 582.<ref>Mordechai Nisan: <i>The Conscience of Lebanon: A Political Biography of Etienne Sakr (Abu-Arz)</i>, (Routledge, 2004), [https://books.google.com/books?id=lkWQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 p. 158]
Fatalities: some estimate: 684 civilians deaths.<ref name=burke>Robert A. Burke, "Counter-Terrorism for Emergency Responders," (2017), [https://books.google.com/books?id=eDwPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA285 p. 285]. ''The PLO and Lebanese National Movement attacked the Christian town of Damour, killing 684 civilians and forcing the remainder of the town's population to flee.''</ref> Others estimate: 582.<ref name=nisan-2004/>
Summarized:<ref name=oasis>[https://www.oasiscenter.eu/en/lebanon-when-pain-leads-to-solidarity-and-not-only-vengeance Christians in The Muslim World. Lebanon: When pain leads to solidarity and not only vengeance] Oasis, Feb 9, 2008.</ref>
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Damour, a predominantly Christian town of 25,000 some 20 kilometres south of Beirut, experienced the worst mass slaughter in its history as a result of an attack by some 10,000 Palestinian terrorists...
The attack itself had begun in the mountains and was apocalyptic. They were thousands, screaming “Allahu akbar! God is great! Attack them in the name of the Arabs. Let us offer Muhammad a holocaust!” They slaughtered anyone they found in their path: men, women and children.
Entire families were killed in their homes. Many women were gang-raped—just a few were left alive. One woman saved her teenage daughter from rape by smearing her face with a dye that made her look disgusting. During the butchery the attackers took pictures of themselves which they later sold to European newspapers.</blockquote>
==Background==
The massacre occurred as part of a series of events during the ''Lebanese Civil War'' in which Muslim [[Palestinian|Palestinians]] joined other Muslim forces,<ref name="Katz1985">{{cite book|author=Samuel M. Katz|title=Armies in Lebanon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0W5-jZY_T2IC&pg=PA5|access-date=June 9, 2021|year=1985|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=978-0-85045-602-8|page=5}}</ref> in the context of the Christian-Muslim divide,<ref name="Brenchley1989">{{cite book|author=Frank Brenchley|title=Britain and the Middle East: Economic History, 1945-87|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtRojsvBm8wC&pg=PA221|access-date=June 9, 2021|year=1989|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-870915-07-6|page=221}}</ref> and soon [[Beirut]] was divided along the Lebanon's''Green Line'', with Christian enclaves to the east and Muslims to the west.<ref name="CarterDunston2008">{{cite book|author1=Terry John Carter|author2=Lara Dunston|author3=Amelia Thomas|title=Syria & Lebanon. Ediz. Inglese|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_R-I_Gx5OgQC&pg=PA35|access-date=June 9, 2021|year=2008|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74104-609-0|page=35}}</ref>
The "[[Palestinian]]" militias sparked the beginning of a long and destructive civil war. Led by Yasir [[Arafat]] they ''aimed to cleanse the south from its inhabitants whom were opposing the oppressive Palestinian military presence and Arab nationalism.'' Arafat once stated that “the road to Jerusalem goes through Jounieh.”<ref name=forgotten>[https://medium.com/@AsAbove_SoBelow/lebanons-long-forgotten-massacre-e3909e4bf13e Lebanon's long forgotten massacre | by XXVII.IV | Medium. Jan 20, 2019].
''Back then the Palestinian militias sparked the beginning of a long destructive civil war. The Palestinian armed militants led by Yaser Arafat aimed to cleanse the south from its inhabitants whom were opposing the oppressive Palestinian military presence and Arab nationalism... Palestinian militiamen taking celebratory pictures after taking over The Damour.
Arafat once stated that “the road to Jerusalem goes through Jounieh.”''</ref><ref>Charbel Hage (@CharbelHage12) Tweeted: #Israel in 2021 is the victim of #Palestinian terrorism... #Lebanon was in the 70’s and 80’s.
We still remember Palestinian #massacres of innocent #Maronite #civilians in Damour, Lebanon. #PalestinianTerrorism #IranTerrorism #wewillneverforget [https://t.co/6S1upNYS5Q] [https://twitter.com/CharbelHage12/status/1391135956846080004?s=20 May 8, 2021]</ref>
Testimony on overall "Palestinian" crime:<ref>[https://canadafreepress.com/article/arafats-massacre-of-damour Arafat’s Massacre of Damour], Joseph Hobeika, Canada Free Press, Jan 2, 2009.</ref>
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Do you not remember Damour Lebanon. Let me remind you. Arafat and the PLO plunged Lebanon into "massacres, rape, mutilation, rampages of looting and killings. Out of a population of 3.2 million, some 40,000 or more people had been killed, 100,000 wounded, 5,000 permanently maimed."</blockquote>
Author:<ref>Alan M. Tigay (1980). "Myths and Facts 1980: A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict." [https://books.google.com/books?id=5SK7AAAAIAAJ&q=damour+jihad p. 153].</ref>
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Prior to the 1967 war, an ominous phrase about Jews and Christians was heard in the Arab world: "First the Saturday people , then the Sunday people." Historian Bernard Lewis writes: "The Saturday people have proved unexpectedly recalcitrant, and recent events in Lebanon indicate that the priorities may have been reversed." (Commentary , January 1976).
On Oct. 2, 1977, Patrick Seale wrote in the London Observer, "Secular nationalism throughout the Arab world has lost ground to a militant revival of Islamic orthodoxy , making all minorities tremble."
Recently, anti-Christian sentiment erupted in Lebanon where ideological and class warfare also split along Moslem-Christian lines.
Cries for a jihad (Moslem holy war) were frequent. Christians in the town of Damour were driven from their homes. An estimated 20,000 Christians died in the two-year civil war.</blockquote>
It was a major incident in a long list of ''massacres and crimes committed by the Palestinians and the Syrians Against the Lebanese (1975–90).''<ref name=nisan-2004>Mordechai Nisan: <i>The Conscience of Lebanon: A Political Biography of Etienne Sakr (Abu-Arz)</i>, (Routledge, 2004), [https://books.google.com/books?id=lkWQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 p. 158]
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Appendix: The Massacres and Crimes Committed by the Palestinians and the Syrians Against the Lebanese (1975–90)
Appendix: The Massacres and Crimes Committed by the Palestinians and the Syrians Against the Lebanese (1975–90)
This Christian town of 30,000 had resisted the PLO, thus it became the target for an all-out PLO and Moslem leftist.<ref name=tal/>
This Christian town of 30,000 had resisted the PLO, thus it became the target for an all-out PLO and Moslem leftist.<ref name=tal/>
==Events==
On 9 January, the Muslim militias began a siege of Damour and Jiyeh.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ictj.org/sites/default/files/ICTJ-Report-Lebanon-Mapping-2013-EN_0.pdf|title=Lebanon's Legacy of Political Violence: A Mapping of Serious Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lebanon, 1975-2008|pages=14, 15}}</ref> Jiyeh was entered by [[Arafat]]'s [[PLO]] on 17 January.<ref name=":0" />
On 9 January, the Muslim militias began a siege of Damour and Jiyeh.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ictj.org/sites/default/files/ICTJ-Report-Lebanon-Mapping-2013-EN_0.pdf|title=Lebanon's Legacy of Political Violence: A Mapping of Serious Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lebanon, 1975-2008|pages=14, 15}}</ref> Jiyeh was entered by [[Arafat]]'s [[PLO]] on 17 January.<ref name=":0" />
First, some twenty Phalangist militiamen were executed, and civilians were lined up against a wall and sprayed with machine-gun fire.<ref>Fisk, 2001, pp. 99–100.</ref> Among the killed were family members of '''Elie Hobeika''' and his fiancée.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elie Hobeika |url=http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/hobeika.html |work=moreorless : heroes & killers of the 20th century |publisher=www.moreorless.au.com |access-date=9 June 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805143542/http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/hobeika.html |archive-date=August 5, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref>
First, some twenty Phalangist militiamen were executed, and civilians were lined up against a wall and sprayed with machine-gun fire.<ref>Fisk, 2001, pp. 99–100.</ref> Among the killed were family members of '''Elie Hobeika''' and his fiancée.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elie Hobeika |url=http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/hobeika.html |work=moreorless : heroes & killers of the 20th century |publisher=www.moreorless.au.com |access-date=9 June 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805143542/http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/hobeika.html |archive-date=August 5, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref>