#shatila

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graffiti in the palestinian shatila refugee camp in beirut, lebanon expressing solidarity with indigenous australians

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Dia al-Azzawi (Iraq, born 1939) - We Are Not Seen, But Corpses: The Massacre of Sabra and Shatila (1982, art 1983)

"After the Palestinian fighters left Lebanon, the Phalangists had their opportunity to take revenge on old people, women and children. I have a lot of Palestinian friends, some artists and writers, and I knew those camps. Within two days, up to 3,500 people were killed. So, this work had a moral side: to defend unarmed people with no voice." - Dia Al-Azzawi

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Never Stop The Struggle

Arabic translation: 2nd Anniversary of Sabra-Shatila: Massacres will never stop the struggle of Palestinians!

Artist: Marc Rudin/Jihad Mansour (1945-2023)

Circa. 1984

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Repost from @letstalkpalestine

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Today marks 44 years since the start of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. What was once one of the bloodiest episodes of Palestinian history has now been eclipsed by the Gaza genocide. The story is always the same: the Israeli state requires the annihilation of the Palestinian people.

The Nakba continues. When it will end is up to us.

In memory of those we lost and who are still being taken from us 🤍🇵🇸

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You can also read it here:

‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures

The long read: Ever since the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, many have been living in dejection and squalor in camps like Sha

"Sitting in the living room listening to Suhaila narrate her war memories was a friend of her youngest son, who was in his mid-20s. Afterwards, downstairs in the alleyway in front of the building, he lowered his head, pressing his long bushy beard against chest, and said in a low, almost inaudible tone, as if Suhaila could hear him from her sixth-floor apartment: “The old people keep talking about the history of the war. Fine, they suffered, but what is happening now in the camp is worse than any war. Young men are dying from drugs. A whole generation is wasting their lives because of the drugs and the poverty.” He was thin and slightly built with tired eyes. He said he spent his days shuffling three menial jobs, and still could not make ends meet."

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Sabra and Shatila: New Revelations

The militia fighters congregated at the Beirut airport, a major Israeli staging point; from there, they were ushered through Israeli lines into the camps, which were surrounded by Israeli forces. Under the command of Phalange leader Elie Hobeika, these men raped, killed, and dismembered hundreds of women, children, and elderly men while Israeli flares illuminated the camps' narrow, dark alleyways. Sharon, meanwhile, briefed his cabinet colleagues on September 16 about the Phalange movements, stressing, according to cabinet minutes, that “the results will speak for themselves..." Some critics have always suspected, and hoped to uncover evidence, that Israeli officials explicitly ordered the massacre or directly colluded in its execution. These new documents don’t supply that smoking gun. What they do show is a pattern of extensive cooperation and planning between Israeli and Maronite leaders...

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The Uprising

Arabic translation: The stone (icon of the Intifada or uprising) avenges Palestinian blood (reference to the victims of the Sabra and Shatila massacres)

Artist: Mark Rudin/Jihad Mansour (1945-2023)

Circa 1989