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Remembering Sabra and Shatila, 41 years on.
Remembering Sabra and Shatila, 41 years on: why we resist.
The Sabra and Shatila massacre stands as one of the most devastating chapters in our ongoing path to liberation.
Two days after the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, the Phalanges, under the watchful eyes of the IOF who besieged and protected the area, invaded the camp of refugees. For an unrelenting 48 hours, the bloodshed did not stop. The children and elderly were mercilessly murdered, women were raped, and pregnant mothers had their bellies poked. Eyewitnesses consider it the most heinous massacre in human history.
Thrown into mass graves in an attempt to bury the crime, the exact number of martyrs is unknown. Reports estimate between 3,000 and 5,000 Palestinian and Lebanese martyrs—most of them Palestinian refugees. To this day, hundreds are still missing, families still torn apart. Our people are not strangers to such horrors. From the Nakba to Deir Yassin and Tal Al-Zaatar, extending to the massacres in Jenin, Nablus, and Gaza—our history is steeped in the blood of the martyrs.
What makes Sabra and Shatila especially painful to remember?
The massacre in itself, regardless of context, is enough. This is compounded by the fact that it was executed by traitors to their own people while the enemy protected them and watched. The people of Sabra and Shatila did not resist the invasion, because they could not resist the invasion. While the Phalanges entered the camp under the pretext that they were trying to find armed resistance fighters, the pictures, films, and testimonies do not lie. And the most egregious aspect? The absence of justice.
Remembering alone may seem inadequate recompense to the thousands of lives lost. However, the goal of remembering isn’t merely remembrance; it is a means to an end.
Why should we remember?
As the descendants of those who have suffered immensely, we must carry within us the collective memory of that suffering, of the pain they have endured. We must actively find ways to connect with it, consistently seeking ways to internalize these stories so deeply that they influence every action, every decision. Our actions are naturally bound to the injustice they suffered, bound to resistance, and by extension, bound to liberation.
We cannot resist effectively if we do not know why we resist.
41 years on, we have a duty to actively remember. We owe it to ourselves to feel the pain, the anger, the frustration, to channel those emotions into meaningful action. Every endeavor we take should channel these raw emotions to serve the cause that we hold dear.
Our feelings must emanate from our collective memory.
Our thoughts must be committed to resistance.
Our actions must seek justice and vengeance.
The Sabra and Shatila massacre stands as one of the most devastating chapters in our ongoing path to liberation.
Two days after the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, the Phalanges, under the watchful eyes of the IOF who besieged and protected the area, invaded the camp of refugees. For an unrelenting 48 hours, the bloodshed did not stop. The children and elderly were mercilessly murdered, women were raped, and pregnant mothers had their bellies poked. Eyewitnesses consider it the most heinous massacre in human history.
Thrown into mass graves in an attempt to bury the crime, the exact number of martyrs is unknown. Reports estimate between 3,000 and 5,000 Palestinian and Lebanese martyrs—most of them Palestinian refugees. To this day, hundreds are still missing, families still torn apart. Our people are not strangers to such horrors. From the Nakba to Deir Yassin and Tal Al-Zaatar, extending to the massacres in Jenin, Nablus, and Gaza—our history is steeped in the blood of the martyrs.
What makes Sabra and Shatila especially painful to remember?
The massacre in itself, regardless of context, is enough. This is compounded by the fact that it was executed by traitors to their own people while the enemy protected them and watched. The people of Sabra and Shatila did not resist the invasion, because they could not resist the invasion. While the Phalanges entered the camp under the pretext that they were trying to find armed resistance fighters, the pictures, films, and testimonies do not lie. And the most egregious aspect? The absence of justice.
Remembering alone may seem inadequate recompense to the thousands of lives lost. However, the goal of remembering isn’t merely remembrance; it is a means to an end.
Why should we remember?
As the descendants of those who have suffered immensely, we must carry within us the collective memory of that suffering, of the pain they have endured. We must actively find ways to connect with it, consistently seeking ways to internalize these stories so deeply that they influence every action, every decision. Our actions are naturally bound to the injustice they suffered, bound to resistance, and by extension, bound to liberation.
We cannot resist effectively if we do not know why we resist.
41 years on, we have a duty to actively remember. We owe it to ourselves to feel the pain, the anger, the frustration, to channel those emotions into meaningful action. Every endeavor we take should channel these raw emotions to serve the cause that we hold dear.
Our feelings must emanate from our collective memory.
Our thoughts must be committed to resistance.
Our actions must seek justice and vengeance.
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41 years have passed since the assassination of criminal Bachir Gemayel, head of the military wing of the Christian fascist Kataeb Party of Lebanon, the perpetrators of the Sabra and Shatila massacre with the protection of the…
41 years have passed since the assassination of criminal Bachir Gemayel, head of the military wing of the Christian fascist Kataeb Party of Lebanon, the perpetrators of the Sabra and Shatila massacre with the protection of the…
Remembering Sabra and Shatila, 41 years on: testimonies.
French writer Jean Genet, one of the first to enter Shatila after the massacre said, "I have spent four hours in Shatila, and what remains in my memory are around forty bodies, all of which—and I emphasize all—have likely been tortured, amidst the ecstasy of the torturers, their songs, their laughter, and amidst the smell of gunpowder. The smell of the corpses was not coming out of a house or from a mangled body; rather, it seemed to me that my body and my being were the ones emitting that smell."
Picture 2 shows Mohammed Said Wihibeh with photos of his martyred family members. He stated, "I'll tell you, they took a boy, just a little boy, and they tore him in half. They literally tore him in half by the legs. And we screamed, 'why?!' They said he would only grow up to be a terrorist! My grandson, what did he do to get killed? First of all, they killed his mother—they hadn't seem him, he was asleep in his cot. He started to cry; of course he did, he wanted his mother. They took him, and they killed him."
Picture 3 shows Lebanese martyr Ilham Dhaher Al-Miqdad, 23 years old, of Shatila camp. She was martyred with her ID in her hand.
Pictures 4 and 5 show Milana Boutros, a Lebanese witness to the massacre, punished for marrying a Palestinian man: she was kept alive to "teach her a lesson" as the Phalangists murdered her entire family.
The second video shows the touching moment that the Palestinian poet Rehab Kanaan, who lost 54 of her family members as martyrs of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, met her daughter on television for the first time in years after believing her to be martyred. The video needs no subnoscripts, as the raw emotions transcend all languages.
French writer Jean Genet, one of the first to enter Shatila after the massacre said, "I have spent four hours in Shatila, and what remains in my memory are around forty bodies, all of which—and I emphasize all—have likely been tortured, amidst the ecstasy of the torturers, their songs, their laughter, and amidst the smell of gunpowder. The smell of the corpses was not coming out of a house or from a mangled body; rather, it seemed to me that my body and my being were the ones emitting that smell."
Picture 2 shows Mohammed Said Wihibeh with photos of his martyred family members. He stated, "I'll tell you, they took a boy, just a little boy, and they tore him in half. They literally tore him in half by the legs. And we screamed, 'why?!' They said he would only grow up to be a terrorist! My grandson, what did he do to get killed? First of all, they killed his mother—they hadn't seem him, he was asleep in his cot. He started to cry; of course he did, he wanted his mother. They took him, and they killed him."
Picture 3 shows Lebanese martyr Ilham Dhaher Al-Miqdad, 23 years old, of Shatila camp. She was martyred with her ID in her hand.
Pictures 4 and 5 show Milana Boutros, a Lebanese witness to the massacre, punished for marrying a Palestinian man: she was kept alive to "teach her a lesson" as the Phalangists murdered her entire family.
The second video shows the touching moment that the Palestinian poet Rehab Kanaan, who lost 54 of her family members as martyrs of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, met her daughter on television for the first time in years after believing her to be martyred. The video needs no subnoscripts, as the raw emotions transcend all languages.
1. "The martyrs of Sabra and Shatila are our leaders...
And indeed, it is a revolution until victory."
2. A pregnant woman standing on rubble holds her martyred husband's military uniform. The background reads "Sabra," and the woman says, "patience" ("sabran" in Arabic) in front of a cowering zionist solider.
3. The good man waves a newspaper with the headline "The memory of the Sabra and Shatila massacre" in front of the sleeping Arab elite wearing a headband that reads "DO NOT DISTURB." Handala kicks the man awake.
4. Handala assists his injured friend on their journey from the rubble of Sabra and Shatila to the cemetery of martyrs. An oil barrel holds a newspaper that reads, "Happy Eid!!"
5. A young orphan consoles a young girl with a kuffiyeh while offering flowers at the cemetery of martyrs of Sabra and Shatila, joined by Handala on top of the mass graves.
6. Rain falls on the land. Blood falls on Sabra and Shatila. Handala watches.
7. The sunflower turns away from the sun. Its petals fall as tears to water the graves in the cemetery of martyrs of Sabra and Shatila.
8. Hungry refugees of Sabra and Shatila are fed by birds with stones in their mouths.
9. Handala cloaks with a kuffiyeh a bound woman, shot in the back, who has been martyred. Female victims of the massacre were subjected to horrific abuses; Handala restores dignity to the dead with his kuffiyeh.
10. Shatila camp.
#NajiSurvives
And indeed, it is a revolution until victory."
2. A pregnant woman standing on rubble holds her martyred husband's military uniform. The background reads "Sabra," and the woman says, "patience" ("sabran" in Arabic) in front of a cowering zionist solider.
3. The good man waves a newspaper with the headline "The memory of the Sabra and Shatila massacre" in front of the sleeping Arab elite wearing a headband that reads "DO NOT DISTURB." Handala kicks the man awake.
4. Handala assists his injured friend on their journey from the rubble of Sabra and Shatila to the cemetery of martyrs. An oil barrel holds a newspaper that reads, "Happy Eid!!"
5. A young orphan consoles a young girl with a kuffiyeh while offering flowers at the cemetery of martyrs of Sabra and Shatila, joined by Handala on top of the mass graves.
6. Rain falls on the land. Blood falls on Sabra and Shatila. Handala watches.
7. The sunflower turns away from the sun. Its petals fall as tears to water the graves in the cemetery of martyrs of Sabra and Shatila.
8. Hungry refugees of Sabra and Shatila are fed by birds with stones in their mouths.
9. Handala cloaks with a kuffiyeh a bound woman, shot in the back, who has been martyred. Female victims of the massacre were subjected to horrific abuses; Handala restores dignity to the dead with his kuffiyeh.
10. Shatila camp.
#NajiSurvives
The IOF admits that one of its vehicles was damaged by an explosive device, forcing it be to pulled out, during their withdrawal from Doha, #Bethlehem this morning.
The IOF turned the home of Sheikh Imad Al-Rub in Jalboun, #Jenin into a military barracks earlier today, seizing his home and deploying soliders inside, because he refused to hand over surveillance footage to the zionist forces.
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🟢 Hamas:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
We call on the [Palestinian] Authority to side with the choices of our people, stop pursuing the resistance, and immediately release political prisoners.
A full year has passed since the kidnapping of fighter Musab Shtayyeh, who is wanted by the occupation forces, by the forces of the Authority. The escalating and fierce campaign by the influential current in the Authority against the resistance and resistance fighters from various Palestinian political streams, in high-level security coordination with the zionist occupation, will not succeed in breaking the will of our people who are committed to resistance as the path to liberation, return, and the defense of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
As the Authority intensifies its campaign against anyone who resists the occupation, with pursuits, kidnappings, arrests, torture, and attempts to break the will of the resistance fighters, and with a security campaign focused on refugee camps, the strongholds of resistance that repelled the occupation and won for Al-Aqsa Mosque, we emphasize the following:
- We call on the presidency and the Security Forces to stop pursuing the resistance and resistance fighters, and to align with the choice of our Palestinian people in confronting the occupation, which is racing day and night to displace our people, steal what remains of their land, and desecrate Al-Aqsa en route to taking control of it.
- We emphasize the need to immediately release all political prisoners, and to stop invoking flimsy and frivolous pretexts for their continued detention.
- We call on national and moral figures across the homeland to strongly prevent the influential faction in the Authority from implementing the occupation's plans to break the resistance and ignite internal strife.
- We urge our Palestinian people to continue embracing the resistance and the resistance fighters, and protect them from the claws of security coordination, and to put pressure on those involved in the pursuit of resistors through tribal and popular means.
And as we warn the ruling faction in the Authority from continuing in its national crime, we affirm that our people's defense of themselves and their rights against the occupation and its settlers, and to protect the path of their prophet [Al-Aqsa], is a legitimate right that will continue as long as the occupation remains on our land and sanctities.
Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas
Tuesday: 04 Rabi' Al-Awwal 1445 AH
Corresponding: 19 September 2023
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
We call on the [Palestinian] Authority to side with the choices of our people, stop pursuing the resistance, and immediately release political prisoners.
A full year has passed since the kidnapping of fighter Musab Shtayyeh, who is wanted by the occupation forces, by the forces of the Authority. The escalating and fierce campaign by the influential current in the Authority against the resistance and resistance fighters from various Palestinian political streams, in high-level security coordination with the zionist occupation, will not succeed in breaking the will of our people who are committed to resistance as the path to liberation, return, and the defense of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
As the Authority intensifies its campaign against anyone who resists the occupation, with pursuits, kidnappings, arrests, torture, and attempts to break the will of the resistance fighters, and with a security campaign focused on refugee camps, the strongholds of resistance that repelled the occupation and won for Al-Aqsa Mosque, we emphasize the following:
- We call on the presidency and the Security Forces to stop pursuing the resistance and resistance fighters, and to align with the choice of our Palestinian people in confronting the occupation, which is racing day and night to displace our people, steal what remains of their land, and desecrate Al-Aqsa en route to taking control of it.
- We emphasize the need to immediately release all political prisoners, and to stop invoking flimsy and frivolous pretexts for their continued detention.
- We call on national and moral figures across the homeland to strongly prevent the influential faction in the Authority from implementing the occupation's plans to break the resistance and ignite internal strife.
- We urge our Palestinian people to continue embracing the resistance and the resistance fighters, and protect them from the claws of security coordination, and to put pressure on those involved in the pursuit of resistors through tribal and popular means.
And as we warn the ruling faction in the Authority from continuing in its national crime, we affirm that our people's defense of themselves and their rights against the occupation and its settlers, and to protect the path of their prophet [Al-Aqsa], is a legitimate right that will continue as long as the occupation remains on our land and sanctities.
Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas
Tuesday: 04 Rabi' Al-Awwal 1445 AH
Corresponding: 19 September 2023