U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a top-secret …

Years: 1982 - 1982

U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a top-secret finding in 1982 authorizing ten million dollars in covert aid to Bachir Gamayel's Lebanese Christian militia.

Gamayel, President-Elect of Lebanon, is assassinated shortly thereafter.

Within two days, Israeli forces allow Phalangist units to enter Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut on a mission of revenge.

At two of these camps, Sabra and Shatilla, Israeli intelligence will calculate that there were seven hundred to eight hundred Palestinian victims, many of them women and children.

All had been massacred.

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