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By Iman Azzi in Beirut' Lebanon Twenty-five years after surviving the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Jamila Khalife still mourns family members who were killed at the hands of Phalangist
Lebanese forces. Her life since then, she says, has been a

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daily reminder of the horrors she witnessed as a 16-year-old Palestinian refugee from Jaffa living in the camps at the height of the 1975-90 Lebanese civil

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"After it was over, on the way to find my mother at the nearby hospital, I saw a woman on the street, her intestines were spilling out. she died holding her baby," Khalife recounted as her own daughter, Ghram (Arabic for Love), sat on her lap,

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Dusk massacre In September 1982, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) fighters, evacuated from their Beirut barracks and the Israeli army, surrounded the refugee
camps. On the afternoon of September 16, Israeli forces allowed members of the Lebanese Forces (LF) - an offshoot of the Phalange party - into the camps allegedly to search for suspects in the slaying of Bashir Gemayel, then Lebanese president. Gemayel, who also headed the LF, had been killed by a car bomb outside his office a day earlier, angering many of his supporters and plunging war-torn Lebanon into further chaos. Palestinian forces quickly distanced themselves from Gemayel's death, but it did not save the camps from reprisals' Khalife says she remembers seeing both Israelis and Phalange party members inside the camPs that day.
',The Israelis were wearing military uniforms. The Phalange wore jeans, normal clothes and military arm bands. They swore at us in Lebanese Arabic," she said.

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Most aid organisations working in the camps in 1982 say around 2,000 civilians were killed over the course of three days.

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Nabil Mohammad, a Palestinian refugee who lost all but one of his six siblings, said: ,'The Israeli military were bombing the camps and the worst case scenario was that

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