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Here we go. Here is the English translation of the entire Hebrew document by Mossad which was recently declassified and published thanks to the work of attorney @EitayMack. #Lebanon #SabraandShatila
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β€’ At the beginning of 1976, on a very stormy and rainy night,

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news was received that a ship that had probably come down from Lebanon was wrecked in the middle of the sea with three passengers, three sailors on board. It was immediately captured by the IDF and it turned out that there were three Lebanese on board.
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β€’ He said that this group came to Israel with the intention of meeting the Israeli leadership to request assistance.

β€’ We started with arms deliveries to the Lebanese. These shipments were shipments that were loaded on dormers, as they called it then,
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β€œIt’s a fascinating decision by the Mossad to reveal this document, even though it isn’t clear why.” The document suggests, he says, that β€œthe massacre at #SabraandShatila was one event in a chain of massacres, executions, abductions, disappearances,
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2/ amputations and abuse of corpses carried out by the Christian militias. The clandestine affair must come to light and enable discussion and drawing of public conclusions that might prevent continued support by the Mossad and the State of Israel for security forces and
3/ militias around the world that commit atrocities. However, the Mossad still believes it has the right to continue to conceal information concerning this from the public.”
- @EitayMack
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Back in the 1970s, for a year or two I taught English to a group of teenage girls in Shatila refugee camp. Most of them, I never found out what had happened to them & their families during the #SabraAndShatila massacre. >
In July 1983, I spent a month in Beirut in the summer, doing final research/interviews for my book "The Making of Modern Lebanon". There was a reign of Falangist/LF terror throughout the whole city then. I told friends who knew the situation in the camps I wanted to go & find >
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I was present & was the 1st journalist who entered the camp. I saw the massacre of Palestinians & Lebanese. Will be in my book in details.

36 years ago, #Israel protected its proxy, Falangists "Lebanese Forces", to commit the massacre of Sabra and Chatila.

Goodnight world...
In the memory of the 16th of September 1982, I share with you a small part of my forthcoming book about #Palestinian camps #SabraAndShatila and the massacre #Beirut #Lebanon.

Many descriptive parts are missing. It was a sad and shocking day that details never left my menory.
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On this day in 1982, US helped Israel massacre at least 1,300 Palestinian & Lebanese civilians in #SabraAndShatila refugee camps. Image
The massacre was carried out by right-wing militias that Israel had trained, armed, & sent to "do the job" with clear US approval.
The Israeli army used flares at night to light the way for the right-wing Lebanese militias to the refugee camps.
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