The Verdict Is Guilty: An Israeli commission and the Beirut massacre

An Israeli commission apportions the blame for the Beirut massacre

After the Phalangists had left the camps, Red Cross personnel, many journalists and other persons entered, and it then became apparent that in the camps, and particularly in Shatila, civilians, including women and children, had been massacred. It was clear from the spectacle that presented itself that a considerable number of the killed had not been cut down in combat but had been murdered, and that no few acts of barbarism had also been perpetrated.

In this kind of...