Abu Jamal still remembers when Lebanese militiamen allied to Israel woke him and his family early one September morning more than three decades ago and dragged them out into the street.

In her essay, “Avenging Sabra and Shatila”, Kifah Sobhi Afifi’ described the joint Phalangist-Israeli attack on her refugee camp when she was only 12 years old.

At one point, Christian militias friendly to Israel massacred thousands of Palestinians at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut. For those who survived, the nightmares persist.

Forty years after Christian militiamen massacred Palestinian refugees and Lebanese nationals in the country's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, the horrors of the tragedy remain seared into survivors' ...

They represent the logical continuum from the exterminationist policies of Sharon. There’s a direct line from Sabra and Shatila to Gaza and the US has never wavered in helping finance the slaughter.

Palestinian scouts carry their national flag, as the march during the 40th anniversary commemoration of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. During the ...

However, Sabra is also the name of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, which still exists today. In 1982, Sabra and Shatila, a neighboring camp, were the site of a horrific massacre.

While the name Sabra is intended to refer to the word's other meaning, it also brings up memories of the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982, where many Palestinians were killed.

A scene with Sanaa, a 13-year-old girl, from the documentary “In the Shadow of Beirut.” Credit... Stephen Gerard Kelly/Grasshopper Films ...

Item 1 of 2 Milany Boutros Alha Bourje holds a picture of herself, standing over her dead family after the Sabra and Shatila massacre, in her home at the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp on the ...

Bourje, who appears in an iconic photograph of the 1982 massacre crying out and waving her arms near a row of bodies, said she was no more optimistic about the future now Sharon was dead. "Nothing ...