| − | "A quarter of its population of 40,000 were killed in the battle or massacred afterwards, and the remainder forced to flee."<ref>Russell, Lee E., Katz, Sam. Armies in Lebanon 1982-84. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CrHvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8 Chapter 1, 'Background to Chaos'].<blockquote><font size=1><On 13 April 1975, in the midst of this explosive atmosphere, a busload of PLO gunmen opened fire on a church in the Christian Ain Rammanah section of Beirut. Pierre Gemayel, leader of tbe Christian Phalange Party and one of the most powerful men in Maronite Lebanon, was present for a family baptism. His bodyguard returned fire, and the lighting escalated. The next day all hell broke loose in Lebanon. | + | "A quarter of its population of 40,000 were killed in the battle or massacred afterwards, and the remainder forced to flee."<ref>Russell, Lee E., Katz, Sam. Armies in Lebanon 1982-84. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CrHvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8 Chapter 1, 'Background to Chaos'].<blockquote><font size=1>On 13 April 1975, in the midst of this explosive atmosphere, a busload of PLO gunmen opened fire on a church in the Christian Ain Rammanah section of Beirut. Pierre Gemayel, leader of tbe Christian Phalange Party and one of the most powerful men in Maronite Lebanon, was present for a family baptism. His bodyguard returned fire, and the lighting escalated. The next day all hell broke loose in Lebanon. |