BEIRUT, (PIC)
On the 42nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the Hamas Movement in Lebanon said that the Palestinian people would continue to stand firm against the Israeli occupation and resist it until its removal from their land.
“The Sabra and Shatila massacre, which was committed by the Israeli occupation and its allied militias on September 16, 1982, will remain firmly rooted in the conscience of the Palestinian people and the world, as a painful and brutal massacre that reflected the Israeli occupation’s terrorism and barbarism,” Hamas said in a statement on Monday.
“This massacre will remain immortal in our national history because it has showed our people’s determination to stand in the face of injustice and terrorism until the day of liberation and return. It will remain a stain on the record of humanity, which has not taken any step to prosecute and punish the perpetrators of this carnage,” Hamas added.
“The anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre comes this year as the Israeli occupation is waging a brutal attack on our people in the Gaza Strip … killing people and destroying infrastructure and all aspects of life,” Hamas said.
“The real response to the Sabra and Shatila massacre and the Israeli occupation’s daily massacres is through the resistance project and the building of a genuine national unity supporting this project,” the Movement underscored.
Since the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe), the oppressed Palestinian people have faced dozens of massacres, including the three-day brutal one that was committed in Lebanon’s Sabra and Shatila by Israeli-backed Christian militiamen in 1982.
Although this massacre was preceded by dozens of mass killings and followed by others, the Sabra and Shatila massacre has marked a turning point in the Palestinian people’s history because of its viciousness and harrowing details.
From September 16 to 18, 1982, a Lebanese militia group, at the behest of the Israeli occupation army, massacred between 800 and 2,000 Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila camps on Beirut’s outskirts. They also murdered at least 100 Lebanese civilians and some Syrians.
