PIC: 21st Anniversary Of Sabra And Chatilla Massacre Sep 20, 2003 Palestine Information Centre Who should now justly be assassinated? 21 years ago Zionist army gangs allowed Lebanese Christian militias into the Beirut refugee camps of Sabra and Chatilla on 16/9/1982 who went on a killing spree for 36 hours. The certified war criminal and the then Zionist war minister Ariel Sharon, current premier of the Hebrew state, gave the green light for the operation at the pretext of clearing the camp of 2,000 Palestinian fighters left by PLO chief Yasser Arafat after evacuating the Lebanese capital that was under Zionist occupation. The Zionist forces, besieging both camps and blocking the escape out of the camp for any refugee or inhabitant of the camps, moved 300 Lebanese Phalange militias into Sabra and Chatilla on 16th September 1982 at 6 pm. They finished their job on 18th September 1982 at 8 am after slaughtering 3,297 men, women and children out of the 20,000 inhabitants of the camps. The mass murder, which also included 136 Lebanese, left 1,800 martyrs in the camp streets and alleys while 1,097 died in Gaza hospital and 400 others died in Akka hospital. The then Zionist premier Menachem Begin, commenting on the carnage, told parliament that Palestinian resistance fighters were "animals walking on two legs." The mass grave in which victims of the bloodbath were buried is a garbage dump nowadays and a stinking sewerage pond. The survivors live at present a life that is best described as "slow death."