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
Among the atrocities committed by [[Palestinian]] and [[Syrian]] forces during this short period alone:
After a [[PLO]] attack on a bus in northern Israel and Israeli retaliation, in order to root out the terrorists, Israel invaded entered Lebanon in March 1978, occupying most of the area south of the Litani River. In response, the The UN Security Council passed Resolution 425 calling for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces and creating the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), charged with maintaining "peace". Israeli forces withdrew later in 1978, turning over positions inside Lebanon along the border to their Lebanese ally, the South Lebanon Army (SLA) under the leadership of Maj. Sa'ad Haddad, thus informally setting up a 12-mile wide "security zone" to protect Israeli territory from cross border attack.
====U.S. Intervention, 1982-84====